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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| 00HARARE2684 | BEHIND THE POLITICAL CONFLAGRATION, ZIMBABWE'S ECONOMY IS [...] (C) WHILE RECENT ATTENTION, NOTABLY OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE, HAS FOCUSED ON THE POLITICAL VIOLENCE OCCURRING HERE, CONCURRENTLY A SERIOUSLY DETERIORATING ECONOMY IS BEING PUSHED RAPIDLY DOWNHILL BY THE ACTIONS AND INACTIONS OF A NEAR-TOTALLY DISTRACTED SENIOR LEADERSHIP. THE LARGEST AND MOST SERIOUS [...] | 2000-05-19 05:46:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR PREL ZI |
| 01ABUJA2074 | THE BLOOM IS OFF THE ROSE: NIGERIA'S DRUG [...] No summary [...] | 2001-08-17 18:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM NI PGOV SNAR |
| 01ANKARA7811 | TURKEY: 2001 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY A/DCM SCOTT MARCIEL FOR REASONS: 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (U) FIGHTING DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM HAS LONG BEEN A TOP PRIORITY FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY (GOT). SINCE THE MID-1960S, TURKEY HAS FACED ALMOST A CONSTANT THREAT FROM DOMESTIC AND TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM TAR [...] | 2001-12-14 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER |
| 01HARARE1727 | DEFENSE MINISTER MAHACHI DIES SUDDENLY [...] (C) ADRESSEES WILL HAVE SEEN PRESS REPORTING OF THE DEATH MAY 26 OF MINISTER OF DEFENSE MOVEN MAHACHI. MAHACHI WAS IN THE BACK SEAT OF A HEAVILY LOADED LAND ROVER DISCOVERY THAT WAS HIT BROADSIDE BY A CAR WHOSE DRIVER WAS REPORTEDLY DRUNK. THE IMPACT CAUSED THE MINISTER'S VEHICLE TO ROLL AND [...] | 2001-05-29 15:22:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ZI |
| 02ABUJA1913 | NIGERIAN READOUT TO G-7 AMBASSADORS [...] (C) Summary: The GON feels Africa needs more carrots and fewer sticks to advance development, NPC Commissioner Isaac Aluko Olokun told G-7 Heads of Mission in late May. He urged greater understanding for Nigeria's institutional flaws and argued that NePAD should be a process, not an instituti [...] | 2002-06-26 11:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KCRM PINS NI |
| 02ANKARA9080 | 2003 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON TURKISH CONTRIBUTIONS [...] This is Embassy Ankara's submission to the 2002 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. = = = = = = = = = = General Assessment = = = = = = = = = = 2. (SBU) Turkey experienced a major political change in 2002 when the governing coalition of Prime Minister Ece [...] | 2002-12-23 10:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PREL TU NATO |
| 02HARARE2784 | ZCTU LEADERS ARRESTED IN ADVANCE OF FIZZLED [...] No summary [...] | 2002-12-10 13:12:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV ZI |
| 02KATHMANDU2057 | SA DAS CAMP MEETING WITH NEPAL'S CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF AND NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETARIAT C-TN2-00948 [...] (C) Summary. In two separate meetings on October 22 2002, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia, Donald A. Camp, accompanied by LTC James E Oxley IV, Defense Attache7 and MAJ Pete Fowler, Security Assistance Office, met with Royal Nepalese Army Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Pyar Jun [...] | 2002-10-30 05:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MARR MASS NP PREL |
| 02ROME6133 | WFP/IRAQ COUNTRY DIRECTOR SHARES THOUGHTS [...] (S) CURRENT RATION CARD SYSTEM IS CUMBERSOME FOR THOSE WHO BECOME DISPLACED, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT INVOLVES MOVEMENT FROM THE SOUTH/CENTRAL TO THE NORTH. U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SECRET PAGE 03 ROME 06133 01 OF 05 241419Z (WFP) HAS OBTAINED PARTIAL DATABASE [...] | 2002-12-24 10:53:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | AORC EAGR EAID KUNR PHUM PREF WFPAORC WFP |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2966 | AIRCRAFT DOWN IN HONDURAS AND THE SEIZURE OF 3.3 [...] On October 16, 2002 at approximately 11:30AM, a white Cessna aircraft traveling northbound was observed by witnesses decending over Honduran territory in the vicinity of San Jose de La Landa, Honduras. During the descent witnesses observed a suitcase being thrown out of a side door of the air [...] | 2002-10-28 15:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | NONE |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3184 | AES AND ELECTRICITY TENDER: GOH AWARDS TO LUFUSSA [...] (C) The Honduran state-owned electricity company ENEE announced that Honduran company Lufussa was the winner of the 210MW electricity tender, ignoring Lufussa's failure to comply with bid requirements and serious allegations of impropriety. ENEE's decision represents a heavy blow for U.S. com [...] | 2002-11-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3196 | THE LATEST CHAPTER IN THE JUDICIAL TALE: A NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 5, the Supreme Court of Honduras named a new panel of Court of Appeals magistrates, after having ousted the entire court on October 23 in the midst of allegations of corruption and impropriety. We are providing biographic summaries on the newly appointed Court of Appe [...] | 2002-11-07 21:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PINR PGOV PHUM HO |
| 03ABUDHABI1512 | TFIZ01: UAE RED CRESCENT SOCIETY HAS AN [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Alright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary: Red Crescent Authority (RCA) Secretary General San'a Al-Kitbi confirmed to SIPDIS Econchief on March 29 that RCA had sent three delegations to Iraq during the last two months, the most recent of whic [...] | 2003-03-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC |
| 03ADANA109 | MERSIN BUSINESS ELITE GLAD FOR REGIME [...] (SBU) Summary: Mersin, one of the largest ports in the Eastern Mediterranean, suffered years of downturn after the first Gulf War. Mersin's business leaders are optimistic they will benefit from new opportunities in the new Iraq. They do worry, however, the U.S. might seek to "punish" Tur [...] | 2003-04-16 13:44:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EWWT PHUM PGOV TU SY JO IZ ADANA |
| 03AMMAN2367 | TFIZ01: JORDAN'S ENERGY MINISTER ON OIL SITUATION, [...] (c) Summary: Jordanian Energy Minister Mohammed Bataineh told us April 17 that after a slow start, Gulf oil was now flowing into Jordan to replace Iraqi crude. Jordanian reserves had dipped initially when Iraqi oil stopped flowing, but had since stabilized and were expected to replenish soo [...] | 2003-04-20 10:28:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD ENRG IZ JO |
| 03COLOMBO1389 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2003 FOR SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...] | 2003-08-11 07:10:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CE ECONOMICS EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV |
| 03HARARE79 | Top Coal Exec Throws in Towel [...] (SBU) Summary: Dominant coal producer Wankie suffers from an acute lack of foreign exchange that could ultimately hamper Zimbabwe's energy output. Top-of-the- line Caterpillar haulers and Bucyrus-Erie Draglines sit idle due to the costliness of imported parts. Meanwhile, the GOZ insists tha [...] | 2003-01-13 14:18:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EMIN ZI ENGR |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY621 | HO CHI MINH CITY: COMPUTER RETAILING GETS MODERN - WITH [...] Summary. On a visit to Ho Chi Minh City's newest Computer and IT superstore, ConGen EconOff, accompanied by a Vietnamese assistant, saw a local attempt at modern American-style computer retailing, but with the same old Vietnamese IPR problems. The computers assembled by the company and sold [...] | 2003-07-10 09:27:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR SOCI VM IPROP |
| 03KATHMANDU2469 | NEPAL: 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 07:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PHUM PGOV NP |
| 03KUWAIT1842 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, MAY 5: KUWAITI POWS; KUWAITI [...] SUMMARY: The lead news story this week is the effort to account for Kuwaiti POWs still missing in Iraq, with frustration growing at the lack of information on the POWs despite the detention and interrogation of former regime officials. Kuwait should not only have a role in rebuilding Iraq' [...] | 2003-05-05 12:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KU KDMR |
| 03LAGOS2078 | CHEVRON'S VIEW ON THE DYNAMICS BEHIND THE FUEL [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Chevron management some two weeks ago President Obasanjo ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to cancel all outstanding orders for refined petroleum products, thus committing the country to an abrupt course of petroleum market reform and libe [...] | 2003-10-08 15:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ELAB ECON NI |
| 03LAGOS499 | NIGERIA: ENERGY UPDATE, FEB 28 [...] This periodic update covering energy issues includes: --Long Lines - Short on Answers; Fuel Crisis Continues --Obasanjo Offers Onshore/Offshore Compromise --Exxon-Mobil Produces Early from Yoho Fields, and --Marginal Oil Fields Awarded --------------------------------------------- ------- [...] | 2003-03-07 12:08:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EFIN ECON EINV PINS NI |
| 03SANAA2463 | NEA A/S BURNS OCTOBER 4 MEETING WITH SALEH: CT [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a 10/4 meeting with President Saleh, NEA A/S Burns welcomed U.S.-Yemeni CT cooperation and supported U.S. assistance for Yemen's security and development. Saleh briefed on expanding Saudi-Yemeni CT cooperation, which he characterized as better than ever before, despite (acc [...] | 2003-10-08 06:46:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PTER AMGT EAID PARM MCAP KPAL SA IZ YM ICC DPRK COUNTER TERRORISM ECON COM |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1932 | CJCS GENERAL MYERS MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 13, CJCS General Myers met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro and senior government officials to discuss issues of bilateral importance and to thank Honduras for its strong support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including its troop contribution to that effort, and the s [...] | 2003-08-15 14:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO |
| 04ABUJA1727 | PARTIAL COMPLIANCE AS NATIONWIDE STRIKE ENTERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The nationwide sit-at-home strike called by the leadership of the NLC entered its second day October 12. In Abuja, most streets and markets were active, but the doors of most commercial banks and filling stations were closed to customers. In Lagos, the stock exchange and Cent [...] | 2004-10-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV EPET KDEM ECON NI |
| 04ABUJA192 | GOMBE STATE: A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Gombe State calls itself "the jewel of the Savannah" and was well known as a commercial and agricultural center before it was made a state in 1996 by the Abacha regime. It is quickly becoming a real success story for development. Agricultural output is growing, especially in com [...] | 2004-02-06 11:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KDEM NI |
| 04AMMAN10040 | JORDAN: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Per reftel, post submits the following language for use in the 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report. This text also will be e-mailed to the S/CT POCs, per reftel. 2. (SBU) Jordan continued its strong support for the global war on terrorism in 2004. Jordanian security services [...] | 2004-12-21 10:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL JO |
| 04AMMAN6576 | NEW JORDAN DAILY SHAKES UP MEDIA MARKET [...] Summary: A new Jordanian daily newspaper ("Al Ghad" - "tomorrow") hit the stands August 1, billing itself as an independent (financially and editorially) alternative to Jordan's staid and risk-averse media establishment. Its owner, a marketing tycoon with connections to the Royal Family, pro [...] | 2004-08-05 14:46:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV KMPI PHUM KMDR JO |
| 04ANKARA3008 | PM ERDOGAN'S TRIP TO SEA ISLAND: DELIVERABLES [...] (S) Summary: With the invitation for PM Erdogan to attend the Sea Island G-8, we have three opportunities for POTUS/PM interaction in the next month: Sea Island, the POTUS Ankara visit and the NATO Summit. This intense U.S./Turkish contact comes amid domestic pressure about the role of Isl [...] | 2004-06-01 11:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | CASC CY ECON IZ PHUM PREL PTER TU |
| 04ANKARA3088 | PM ERDOGAN'S TRIP TO SEA ISLAND: DELIVERABLES [...] (S) Summary: With the invitation for PM Erdogan to attend the Sea Island G-8, we have three opportunities for POTUS/PM interaction in the next month: Sea Island, the POTUS Ankara visit and the NATO Summit. This intense U.S./Turkish contact comes amid domestic pressure about the role of Isl [...] | 2004-06-04 11:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | CASC CY ECON IZ PHUM PREL PTER TU |
| 04ANKARA4526 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT, [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-11 15:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 04ANKARA4529 | TURKS SEEK URGENT COOPERATION ON SECURITY MEASURES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. four. 2. (C) MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs Baki Ilkin called in DCM Aug. 11 to discuss the security situation for Turkish truckers in Iraq. The GOT has been dealing with the murder and kidnapping of a number of T [...] | 2004-08-11 16:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS TU IZ |
| 04BANGKOK7421 | RTG ADMITS DEATHS OF DETAINEES TAKEN AFTER [...] (U) Summary: Late on October 26, Royal Thai Government (RTG) officials confirmed that 78 demonstrators (of over 1300 detainees) taken in custody after an October 25 clash with security units at Tak Bai Police Station in Narathiwat province died "in transit" to an army camp in Pattani. These [...] | 2004-10-27 11:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PHUM PREL PTER TH |
| 04BOGOTA2634 | WILL CONGRESS COME THROUGH FOR URIBE? [...] (SBU) Summary: In January, President Uribe, in an effort to nudge a recalcitrant Congress toward passage of new reforms, announced plans to form three high-level special commissions to formulate proposals in the areas of economics, justice, and administration of the state. On February 17, t [...] | 2004-03-02 22:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KJUS PTER CO |
| 04BRUSSELS1655 | JOINT 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 13:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PHUM PGOV BU TZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04CARACAS1313 | POLITICIZING VENEZUELA'S ECONOMIC BUREAUCRACY [...] (C) Current efforts to ensure loyalty within Venezuelan government institutions by using the list of persons who signed the recall petition against President Chavez, take place against the backdrop of a longer history of politically motivated firings and personnel shuffling aimed at cementing [...] | 2004-04-16 20:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV VE |
| 04CARACAS1552 | VENEZUELA'S POWER SECTOR: HEADING FOR ANOTHER [...] (C) After dodging the drought bullet in 2003, Venezuela's power sector is once again (still?) in a fragile state. This time, however, other weaknesses in the electric power system caused by lack of investment, government inattention, and political meddling are taking center stage. The problem [...] | 2004-05-12 15:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG VE |
| 04HANOI3356 | 2004 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR) - VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-20 10:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN HIV KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI VM |
| 04HANOI966 | VIETNAM: MICROSOFT FOCUSED ON IPR [...] (SBU) Summary. While disappointed in the lack of progress in improving IPR protection in Vietnam, Microsoft remains committed to engaging the GVN on this critical issue. Microsoft and Business Software Alliance (BSA) representatives are looking at ways to encourage the GVN to adopt a legitim [...] | 2004-04-07 04:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON VN IPROP |
| 04ISTANBUL1484 | A MARINER'S VIEW OF THE TURKISH STRAITS [...] (U) In meetings with Consulate and Embassy officers last week, British Petroleum maritime consultant Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Morgan provided a mariner's view of the issues the Turkish straits pose for transiting oil tankers. Morgan, who accompanied a BP Suezmax tanker through the straits [...] | 2004-09-29 10:43:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ENRG ECON SENV TU |
| 04KINSHASA1140 | ECONOMIC REPORT - MARCH THROUGH JUNE 2004 [...] SUMMARY. Prices and the exchange rate remain stable even through political difficulties. The mining sector has been extremely active. Mining company America Mineral Fields (Amfi) wins approval and signature of its USD 300 million contract and then changes its name to Adastra Minerals. The UK g [...] | 2004-06-21 14:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAIR ECON ECPS EFIN EINV ELTN EMIN EPET ETRD PGOV PREL CG |
| 04KUWAIT928 | (C) KUWAIT PETROLEUM COMPANY: UNCOMPROMISING ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On 9 March Embassy and US Military officials from OMC-K and the 143rd Transportation Unit met with Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) Deputy Chairman Nader Sultan to discuss the current status of the Iraq humanitarian fuel contract and the US military's future land needs at the po [...] | 2004-03-22 11:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV EWWT PREL MARR KU IZ SA QA IR |
| 04MAPUTO712 | MAY MONTHLY ECONOMIC WRAP-UP: MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) A major Zimbabwean horticultural company is shifting its operations to Mozambique and Zambia as a result of land seizure in Zimbabwe. Ousted by the Zimbabwean Government, Kondozi Company will be granted 800 hectares of land in the Manica Province by the GRM, according to AIM Reporting. H [...] | 2004-05-28 10:38:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ |
| 04PANAMA1700 | WHERE IS PANAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT HEADING? [...] (C) Martin Torrijos and his inner circle, due to take power on September 1, are pushing an energetic and ambitious transition agenda featuring clear-cut goals in foreign policy (priority to the U.S. and Colombia),security (cooperation with U.S. objectives, new attention to the Caribbean coast [...] | 2004-07-01 12:22:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PM POL CHIEF |
| 04PANAMA1949 | PANAMA: SCENE SETTER FOR GEN. HILL'S AUG. 12 VISIT [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome your August 12 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to expanding training programs shared between our two countries, and to press for continuing focus on civilian controlled security forces, transparency and anti-corruption within P [...] | 2004-08-02 14:15:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL MASS PGOV PM POL CHIEF |
| 04PANAMA1992 | PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR USG DELEGATION TO THE [...] (SBU) US Embassy Panama welcomes the USG delegation to the National Security Planning Workshop, Aug. 11-13, which is designed to assist the incoming PRD government headed by President-elect Torrijos who assumes office September 1. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to [...] | 2004-08-06 12:18:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL MASS PGOV PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
| 04PANAMA2524 | UNDERSTANDING PANAMA'S COLON FREE ZONE [...] (C) Summary: An important pillar of Panama's service-based economy, the Colon Free Zone (CFZ) is the largest duty free zone in the hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Offering much more than just duty-free wholesale shopping, however, the CFZ draws upon the strengths of Panama's wo [...] | 2004-10-12 18:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN PTER SNAR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS |
| 04PANAMA440 | PANAMA ELECTIONS - NOTES FROM THE FIELD - CHIRIQUI [...] (SBU) Residents of Chiriqui, Panama's largest dairy, coffee, and vegetable producer, and its capital David, Panama's third-largest city, want politicians to focus on unemployment and an agricultural sector threatened by a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Pol Counsel [...] | 2004-02-25 18:17:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PM PINR PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA929 | SCENESETTER: AUSTR VARGO'S TRIP TO PANAMA FOR THE [...] (U) I warmly welcome your April 25-30 visit to Panama. The USDEL's visit marks the culmination of a long campaign by the GoP to move forward on an FTA with the U.S. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to expanding trade and investment between our two countries, and to pre [...] | 2004-04-22 20:43:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS |
| 04PRETORIA5319 | 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 [...] | 2004-12-09 11:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA5334 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH DECEMBER 10 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...] | 2004-12-10 07:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2299 | Honduras: Progress Toward an MCC Compact [...] (SBU) Summary: MCC representatives visited Honduras October 4-8 to continue due diligence investigations in preparation for evaluating and signing a Compact agreement in the next several months. This visit is the 5th visit since May, when Honduras was short-listed as a country invited to app [...] | 2004-10-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO |
| 05AMMAN2474 | POTENTIAL CUTS TO REFUGEE "SAFETY NETS" IN GAZA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With donors currently providing only 20 percent of its requested emergency funds (and earmarking them heavily to rebuild demolished refugee housing in Rafah),UNRWA believes it will be forced to scale back its emergency food and employment programs -- which support fully three-f [...] | 2005-03-24 16:22:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL KPAL KWBG JO UNRWA |
| 05AMMAN4125 | DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR 2005-2006: JORDAN [...] Post has identified four desired outcomes in our effort to support Jordan's reform plans and to advance democracy: 1) enhancement of political participation and representational government through passage of new election and political parties laws; 2) greater government accountability resultin [...] | 2005-05-25 15:37:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KMPI JO |
| 05ANKARA2380 | BTC pipeline in Turkey still aiming for late [...] (SBU) Summary: While working to deliver the Baku- Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey has pushed Turkey's state pipeline company BOTAS to operate much closer to international standards, it has encountered great difficulty managing the variety of sub-contracts on the job. BOTAS has had to seque [...] | 2005-04-27 12:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PHUM TU BTC |
| 05ANKARA2606 | BTC PIPELINE IN TURKEY STILL AIMING FOR LATE 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: While working to deliver the Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey has pushed Turkey's state pipeline company BOTAS to operate much closer to international standards, it has encountered great difficulty managing the variety of sub-contracts on the job. BOTAS has had to seque [...] | 2005-05-06 08:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PHUM TU BTC |
| 05ANKARA6318 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, October 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Guardian Unlimited on Saturday [...] | 2005-10-19 11:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA7236 | TURKEY-IRAQ: WAY FORWARD ON SUSTAINMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post and EUCOM/DESC are prepared to work with Turkish authorities to explore short/medium term options that could improve predictability and consistency of fuel product flow across the border. These include staging sustainment trucks on the Turkish side of the border before th [...] | 2005-12-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PREL TU IZ |
| 05ANKARA775 | CONVERSION OF CEKMECE RESEARCH REACTOR AND RETURN [...] Summary: A DOE-State team visited Ankara and Istanbul January 14-17 to meet with officials of the Turkish Atomic Energy Commission (TAEK) and operators of the TR-2 research reactor at the Cekmece Nuclear Research Center. Discussions focused on possible Turkish participation in a combined shi [...] | 2005-02-09 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP TRGY TU |
| 05BAGHDAD4324 | POLITICAL REACTIONS TO THE SADDAM TRIAL [...] (C) Summary. For many Iraqis, the Saddam trial provides a sense of relief, revenge, justice and healing. However, some Sunni Arabs claimed that it is a political tool to divert attention away from referendum anomalies and the upcoming elections. Press editorials warn that Saddam's grandstand [...] | 2005-10-20 07:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM IZ |
| 05BANGKOK1157 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF FORMER PRESIDENTS BUSH [...] (U) President Bush and President Clinton, your visit to Phuket is eagerly anticipated by our Embassy in Bangkok, U.S. officials working on relief efforts, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (Prime Minister TOCK-SIN),and the Royal Thai Government. In Thailand, we are several weeks past the c [...] | 2005-02-15 06:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL PGOV TH |
| 05BOGOTA11357 | PLAN PATRIOTA PHASE 2B: STATUS REPORT [...] (C) President Uribe relieved Joint Task Force Omega (JTF-O) Commander General Fracica, who was in charge of carrying out Plan Patriota's Phase 2B in Southeastern Colombia, because he had failed to produce concrete results against high value targets (HVTs),Uribe's top security objective. Frac [...] | 2005-12-07 19:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER MOPS FARC CO |
| 05BUCHAREST836 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MARCH 30 MEETING WITH ROMANIAN PRIME MINISTER CALIN POPESCU-TARICEANU [...] (C) Summary: In his March 30 meeting in Bucharest with Deputy Secretary Zoellick, Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu underscored the central importance the new Romanian government ascribes to strong bilateral relations with the U.S. Tariceanu requested as much information sharing and c [...] | 2005-04-05 13:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ RO |
| 05CAIRO9302 | 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT FOR EGYPT [...] From January to August 2005, the U.S. trade surplus with Egypt reached $900 million. Exports to Egypt totaled $2.0 billion for this period, representing a 1.7 percent decrease over the same period of 2004. U.S. imports from Egypt for the same period totaled $1.1 billion, a 48 percent increas [...] | 2005-12-15 12:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EG USTR |
| 05CALGARY656 | CALGARY ENERGY ROUND-UP: OCTOBER 2005 [...] Alberta Minister Melchin Warns Ottawa to Keep Energy out of Softwood Lumber Dispute: "Hands off Our Oil" 2. NEP2 on the Horizon? 3. Alberta Energy Company Buys North Sea Developer 4. New Terasen-Pembina Partnership Proposes Condensate Pipeline 5. New Oilsands Regulations Raise Environmenta [...] | 2005-11-04 03:56:00 | Consulate Calgary | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV SENV CA CH UK |
| 05COLOMBO1366 | IMI - INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2005 - SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-04 10:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CE ECON ECONOMICS EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR |
| 05COLOMBO875 | IMI - INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2005 - SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-12 07:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CE ECON ECONOMICS EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR |
| 05DHAKA517 | BANGLADESH: 2003/2004 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] In response to reftel, American Embassy Dhaka is pleased to provide the following information regarding end use of INL-provided assistance in Bangladesh. 2. Procedures: Forensics Advisor Howard Dobres visited the testing laboratory operated by the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in [...] | 2005-02-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SNAR AFIN BG |
| 05FRANKFURT4988 | Stability and Growth Pact: Revived, Passes First [...] (SBU) Summary: Even before modifications of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) were adopted by the Council on June 27, the European Commission (EC) had passed its first test applying the "spirit" of the new rules to Italy and Portugal. The EC's recommendations that thes [...] | 2005-07-01 12:58:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EUN |
| 05GENEVA2734 | JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-041. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 3, 2005 Time: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (U) A Working Group meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 3, 2005, to discuss [...] | 2005-11-09 07:35:00 | US Mission Geneva | SECRET | PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF |
| 05GUATEMALA2653 | CONTRABAND, CUSTOMS REFORM AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY [...] (C) Contraband poses an ongoing threat to Guatemala's economic development, undermining growth in the formal sector and diminishing the government's ability to collect taxes. The potential nexus with organized crime, human and drug smuggling, along with the incentive to corrupt and undermine [...] | 2005-11-22 22:06:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN BEXP ETTC KCOR KCRM KIPR PGOV PM PINR ASEC SNAR GT |
| 05LIMA1346 | Peru: 2005 ATPDEA Eligibility Report [...] The following is Post's submission of Peru's 2005 ATPDEA Eligibility Report, as requested in reftel. Effect of the ATPA/ATPDEA ------------------------- 2. The growing importance of the U.S. market for Peruvian exporters is reflected by the fact that the U.S. share of Peru's total expor [...] | 2005-03-21 16:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV PE OPIC USTR |
| 05LIMA3474 | Peru: Human Rights Update [...] The following report provides a mid-year update on the Human Rights situation in Peru. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to identify emerging trends and highlight key issues. Peru's human rights situation, in terms of the GOP's respect for the human rights of citizens, continu [...] | 2005-08-11 20:51:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4132 | FAR LEFT, INSPIRED BY CHAVEZ, SEEKING TO RIDE [...] (C) Most of Peru,s far-left Marxist parties, movements, and labor organizations are attempting to unite forces for the 2006 general elections under the banner of a "Frente Amplio" (Broad Front). They hope their standard bearer will be Ollanta Humala, leader of the fascistic Nationalist Peruv [...] | 2005-09-22 19:23:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PE |
| 05NAIROBI1668 | THE PORT OF MOMBASA: DETERIORATION, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Port of Mombasa is the largest port in the Horn of Africa, and is the economic lifeblood for the entire East Africa region. It is managed by a wholly- owned government parastatal, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). The Port is currently overwhelmed by a growing trade volume, [...] | 2005-04-20 10:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ETTC EINV ELTN EWWT AMGT ABLD ASUP ATRN PREL PTER SNAR KSTC KE |
| 05OTTAWA1681 | LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES REGROUP, WAIT FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: It appears that the most likely scenario now is an early spring election following the end of year release of the Gomery report. Both sides have settled in for what amounts to a 10-month campaign, with the Liberals appearing much better organized and focused. The Conservatives c [...] | 2005-06-03 20:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CA PREL |
| 05OTTAWA2931 | CANADA'S DISAPPEARING BUDGET SURPLUS [...] (U) Introduction and summary: Canada's 2004-05 budget surplus came in at C$1.6 billion (about US$ 1.36 billion),almost C$8 billion lower than conventional wisdom had expected. The GOC attributes the discrepancy to an unanticipated change in accounting procedures for one-time expenditures a [...] | 2005-09-29 19:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ETRD KTFN ECON PREL CA |
| 05PANAMA338 | PANAMA RESPONSE TO TIP PROTECTION (ESF) PROPOSAL [...] (U) Embassy is pleased to submit three anti-TIP bilateral project proposals (including two from the same government ministry),chosen from five submissions. Since the passage of the GOP's groundbreaking anti-TIP law in March 2004, the GOP has worked hard with its limited resources to promot [...] | 2005-02-15 20:49:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB EAID KWMN KCRM KDEM PHUM SMIG PM |
| 05PORTAUPRINCE1791 | JUDICIAL POLICE DIRECTOR DISCUSSES GANGS WITH DCM [...] (C) Summary: Newly (re-)appointed Director General of the Judicial Police Michael Lucius summarized the Haitian National Police (HNP) response to gang-led criminality in a conversation with the DCM on July 1. Lucius accused pro-Aristide former employees of state-owned enterprises (such as Tele [...] | 2005-07-06 14:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC HA |
| 05PRAGUE1058 | CZECH'S SOLIDARITY FUND REQUEST PROCUREMENT LIST [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) In response to the Department's request, Post is transmitting the text of the original Czech request for items under their $6 million Coalition Solidarity Fund (CSF) allocation. Per reftel, Czech MOD Director of Secur [...] | 2005-07-14 16:06:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PARM PREL MOPS EZ |
| 05PRETORIA3298 | SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER [...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly 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, chro [...] | 2005-08-17 08:54:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ECON SF |
| 05QUITO1018 | EMBASSY 90-DAY GOALS, CHALLENGES UNDER PALACIO GOVT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In word if not always in deed, Ecuador's Lucio Gutierrez administration qualified as pro-American. President Alfredo Palacio's most definitely does not. Brought to power by street mobs ("forajidos") clamoring for change, Palacio's closest advisor and Cabinet stalwart is gringo-b [...] | 2005-05-04 21:31:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KDEM SNAR PTER ECON ASEC EC CO |
| 05RANGOON1275 | BURMA: CHARGE MEETS THE MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Charge made a courtesy call November 8 on Dr. Kyaw Myint, Minister of Health. The minister assured the Charge of the GOB's commitment to transparency on avian influenza outbreaks in Burma and his ministry has several initiatives to mitigate the spread of AI. The minister des [...] | 2005-11-09 10:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EAGR PGOV SOCI TBIO BM |
| 05ROME1807 | Corrected Copy: Italy Rethinking Nuclear [...] A surprisingly vigorous debate has emerged in Italy on renewing nuclear power generation, following comments by Prime Minister Berlusconi and others. While Italy's geography limits sites for nuclear plant construction, Embassy energy sector contacts maintain that Italy must reconsider its 198 [...] | 2005-05-26 18:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ENRG IT ITALIAN POLITICS |
| 05SANTIAGO2482 | CHILE: 2005 INCSR PART I: NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Below is "Part I: "Drugs and Chemical Control" of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) for Chile. Per instructions, Part II will be sent septel. I. Summary 2. While not a center of illicit narcotics production, Chile remains a transit country for cocaine and heroi [...] | 2005-12-09 16:46:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR CI |
| 05TAIPEI2601 | TAIWAN STILL ANTI NUCLEAR POWER [...] (c) Summary. In the run up to Taiwan,s June 20-21 National Energy Conference, anti-nuclear forces within the Executive Yuan are standing their ground. Many energy experts within and without the government were hoping that the Conference would result in the ruling DPP party rethinking its ant [...] | 2005-06-14 07:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG KNNP SENV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI2768 | Taiwan's Higher Education--Initiatives to Improve [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Taiwan's higher education system has grown rapidly in the past ten years, leaving it over-expanded and under-funded. Educators and employers have recognized the need for higher education to improve in quality and become more internationalized if Taiwan is to develop a more soph [...] | 2005-06-24 09:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KPAO SCUL SOCI TW |
| 05TAIPEI3667 | Economic Briefing for August 2005 [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in August 2005: --Poor economic performance 1H, mixed expectations 2H --The CBC's ensures BOP surplus in Q2 --Chunghwa Telecom privatized amid opposition --Taiwan attempts to cut budget deficit --GE first foreign compa [...] | 2005-09-06 02:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
| 05TELAVIV293 | NETANYAHU TO CODEL KYL ON ECONOMIC REFORMS, [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu outlined for CODEL Kyl and the Ambassador in a January 9 meeting the economic reforms he has undertaken during his tenure. The reforms include cutting government expenses, reducing taxes, privatizing some state-owned enterprises, and fixing t [...] | 2005-01-18 11:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
| 05VIENNA2955 | TFUS01: AUSTRIAN OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE FOR [...] Summary: Top Austrian officials have made specific offers to the Ambassador for disaster assistance. The Austrian military has made a specific offer of a Disaster Relief group to provide capabilities including water purification, decontamination, and search and rescue support. In [...] | 2005-09-03 11:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US AU |
| 05WELLINGTON813 | NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C) New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark on October 19 unveiled a new Cabinet dominated by familiar faces, with veteran members of Parliament named to the top seven positions. None of the Cabinet assignments is particularly controversial. However, the one controversial choice -- the appoin [...] | 2005-10-19 06:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
| 06ABUDHABI288 | 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] (U) The UAE in 2004 and 2005 continued its outstanding record as a valuable strategic partner in the Global War on Terrorism and in supporting key U.S. regional strategic policy goals. Among the highlights of the UAE's contributions to the common defense are: -- (C) Providing basing for USA [...] | 2006-01-29 13:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MCAP MARR MASS AE |
| 06ACCRA2181 | Western Region - Energy, HIV and Illegal Mining Top List of [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-18 17:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON GH |
| 06ACCRA2808 | SCENESETTER 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 16:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH OTRA PGOV PREL |
| 06ANKARA1705 | TURKEY: BTC OIL ADVANCES - ERZURUM AS ENERGY CROSS- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With first oil at Pump Station 3, BTC is still on track for first tanker loading at Ceyhan on May 27. The project has achieved good "buy-in" from the local population from jobs and its community programs. Nearby major city Erzurum hopes to benefit more from development as an [...] | 2006-03-30 14:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV TU IR |
| 06BAGHDAD917 | ZELIKOW-CHALABI DISCUSSION: GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary: In a March 16 discussion with Department of State (DoS) Counselor Philip Zelikow, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Ahmad Chalabi took deserved credit for a series of strategic and tactical victories to meet the ongoing energy crisis during the past week, the most important [...] | 2006-03-20 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ PGOV PREL KCOR |
| 06BEIJING5079 | (C) WTO AFFAIRS DG ON AUSTRALIA FTA, DOHA ROUND, [...] (C) Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) World Trade Organization (WTO) Department Director-General ZHANG Xiangchen will travel with Premier Wen Jiabao to Australia on April 1, and then to Geneva for a WTO Trade Policy Review meeting on China. He described domestic pressures which could limit Chin [...] | 2006-03-17 10:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO EAGR PGOV EINV CH AS |
| 06BEIRUT2175 | MGLE01: ISF FACING INCREASING DRUG ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Econoff attended a June 26 Internal Security Forces (ISF) briefing to the Mini-Dublin Group. Col. Kowalty Abdel Razzak, head of the ISF's 200-person drug enforcement unit, told the group that drug enforcement has become more difficult since the Syrian withdrawal. More farmers in the Bi [...] | 2006-06-28 14:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL LE PBTS PGOV SNAR SOCI SY |
| 06BOGOTA309 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT FOR [...] Below you will find AmEmbassy Bogota's submission for the 2005- 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report per Ref. I. Summary  [...] | 2006-01-13 20:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 06BRASILIA1787 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 80 [...] The following is the eightieth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed [...] | 2006-08-24 19:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BUENOSAIRES2033 | THE US AND IRAN; THE US VOTE ON AN IDB LOAN FOR ARGENTINA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local international stories include US President Bush's statements about Iran; the US allegedly opposing the approval of an IDB loan for Argentina; the World Bank's 2007 Doing Business Report on Argentina; Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon; US Democrats' statement tha [...] | 2006-09-07 20:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION |
| 06CAIRO7211 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: COMING SOON, BUT [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak is expected to submit his long-awaited constitutional amendments package to the Egyptian legislature on December 25. While precise details of the substance of the proposed changes are still scarce, likely amendments can be roughly divided into four broad catego [...] | 2006-12-21 10:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
| 06CANBERRA1244 | PM HOWARD STEPS OUT TOWARD THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (C/NF) With his declaration July 31 that he would seek a fifth term in office effectively ending months of speculation about his intentions (ref A),Prime Minister John Howard can now focus on the national elections that must be held in 2007. A renowned morning power-walker, Howard has good [...] | 2006-08-17 04:29:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON AS |
| 06CARACAS1238 | PDVSA: DIVERSIFICATION, CORRUPTION, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The politicization of PDVSA appears to have an increasingly negative impact on how it carries out its operations and conducts long term planning. As a result of Bolivarian ideology, PDVSA appears to be making a concerted effort to shed itself of long-term supply contracts as well [...] | 2006-05-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV VE |
| 06COLOMBO2086 | SRI LANKA: HUGE PUSH TO DEVELOP THE PRESIDENT'S HOME [...] Summary. Since President Rajapaksa's election, there has been renewed interest in pursuing several infrastructure projects in Hambantota District, his home district and one of the poorest and least developed areas in Sri Lanka. Proposed projects include an international airport, an industria [...] | 2006-12-18 03:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD EAID CE |
| 06COLOMBO321 | IMI - INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2006 ? SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-28 10:56:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV |
| 06DHAKA1464 | BANGLADESH: 2004/2005 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] The End Use Monitoring Report for Bangladesh follows per reftel. 2. Procedures: Econoff visited the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) lab in Dhaka to examine the INL-funded equipment and to question personnel about its maintenance and use. Lab staff members were cooperative in showing [...] | 2006-03-16 09:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN SNAR ECON BG |
| 06DUBAI1010 | DUBAI PORTS WORLD CHAIRMAN: DUBAI CONTROL, BUT NOT PURCHASE, [...] (C) Consul General contacted Dubai Ports World (DPW) Executive Chairman Sultan bin Sulayim (SBS) February 25 to seek clarification of DPW's February 24 announcement that it was willing to delay taking over P&O's U.S. operations. Did this mean that DPW's purchase of P&O would be delayed? SBS st [...] | 2006-02-25 13:27:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PREL AE |
| 06DUSHANBE698 | TAJIKISTAN'S TRANSPORTATION SECTOR: BY PLANE, TRAIN, OR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Improving Tajikistan's air, rail, and road transportation network supports Secretary Rice's Infrastructure Integration Initiative for Greater Central Asia. Creating a cohesive transportation network passable throughout the year decreases transportation costs and promotes trade th [...] | 2006-04-13 10:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV EAID ELTN ETRD AF PK TI |
| 06FREETOWN400 | LARGELY U.S.-OWNED SIERRA RUTILE OFF TO GOOD [...] (C) Sierra Rutile (SR) just exported the first shipment of mined product since 1995. Board members, including Chairman Walter Kansteiner, witnessed the re-entry of the US.-owned company into world markets. Up until the mid-1990s when the mining equipment was destroyed by rebels, SR was the wo [...] | 2006-05-17 15:32:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN ETRD EFIN PREL BEXP SL |
| 06GUANGZHOU16330 | SHENZHEN AIRLINES PLANS TO SOAR [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent meeting, Shenzhen Airlines Vice President Zhang Pei laid out the airline's ambitious expansion strategy. Operating mostly Boeing aircraft, Shenzhen Air runs an efficient operation that has made it China's most profitable airline after flag carrier Air China. H [...] | 2006-06-01 05:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU16447 | USDOC BIS Under Secretary McCormick Visit to South [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While in Guangzhou, USDOC BIS Under Secretary David McCormick gave a speech at Huawei SIPDIS Technologies, Inc. Training Center, met with the Guangdong American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Board of Governors, and conducted a site visit to True Temper Composite Material Prod [...] | 2006-06-02 06:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP ETTC ETRD PGOV PREL CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU27721 | IPR CONFERENCE EXPLAINS HOW TO BRING ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES FROM A VARIETY OF IPR-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS TOLD US BUSINESSES HOW TO BRING JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR IPR AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN SHENZHEN. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS EXPLAINED TO U.S. BUSINESSES THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN CHINA THAT DEAL [...] | 2006-08-17 06:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
| 06HONGKONG1468 | SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S MEETING WITH HONG KONG CHIEF [...] (C) On March 31, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff met with Hong Kong Chief Executive SIPDIS (CE) Donald Tsang. They discussed how to improve port security without impeding the flow of commerce. Tsang assessed both Hong Kong and mainland China's preparedness [...] | 2006-04-08 02:52:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ECON EWWT HK CH |
| 06HONGKONG2404 | CATHAY AND DRAGONAIR ANNOUNCE MERGER [...] (U) In a joint news conference in Hong Kong on June 9, Air China and Cathay executives announced a deal that would lead to Cathay Pacific assuming 100 percent ownership of Hong Kong's second largest carrier Dragon Air. Cathay Pacific and Air China would each own 17.5 percent of the other. Cat [...] | 2006-06-09 10:35:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PREL PGOV HK CH |
| 06JAKARTA12253 | AN ENHANCED U.S. ROLE IN COMBATING AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Summary. After a slow start that led to the unchecked spread of AI across much of Indonesia, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) has developed a simplified AI strategy with re- aligned priorities under a functioning National Comm [...] | 2006-10-05 09:53:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU |
| 06JAKARTA2984 | INDONESIA - GOVERNMENT OUTLINES INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Boediono and other Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials outlined a wide ranging infrastructure development plan at a February 21 conference for potential foreign investors in Jakarta. Boediono and other GOI speakers described an am [...] | 2006-03-07 10:24:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EAIR ELTN ECPS ID |
| 06JAKARTA6497 | Aceh: GAM Reintegration Advances Despite Obstacles [...] (SBU) Summary. Successful reintegration of Free Aceh Movement (GAM) ex-combatants and others, essential to ensuring long term peace in Aceh, has advanced but still faces obstacles. Reintegration payments promised by GOI have arrived only slowly. Aceh's economy remains flat or worse, with a [...] | 2006-05-23 00:33:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ASEC SNAR SOCI ID |
| 06JOHANNESBURG415 | SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE ASSAY" -- [...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly 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, chrom [...] | 2006-10-20 15:04:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN EPET ENRG ECON SF |
| 06JOHANNESBURG416 | SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE ASSAY" -- [...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly 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, chrom [...] | 2006-10-20 15:05:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ENRG EINV EPET ECON SF CH |
| 06JOHANNESBURG467 | SOUTH AFRICA: STATE OF ALUMINUN INDUSTRY [...] (U) The South African aluminum industry is well developed and a major contributor to the economy. During 2005, primary and semi-fabricated aluminum sales amounted to 920,000 tons valued at about $1.7 billion, of which exports accounted for more than 70% by mass and value. All plants are curre [...] | 2006-11-17 13:04:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ETRD ENRG ECON ELAB EIND SF |
| 06KABUL1884 | PROPOSED POLICE PROGRAM CHANGES TO MEET THREAT [...] (C) Operationally-focussed shifts in the Afghan police program will address the security situation in the south and to President Karzai's concerns (ref a). The Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A, formerly OSC-A),in coordination with the Embassy, the German Police Pro [...] | 2006-04-28 08:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SNAR ASEC PGOV PREL AF |
| 06KABUL3078 | PRT/PANJSHIR: Road Paves Way For Change [...] (SBU) The new road in Panjshir, funded by USAID at 16 million USD, is making daily progress along its 47- km stretch. The road is transforming the province - economically, politically and socially. The change is overwhelmingly positive; Panjshiri support of the project is wide-spread. Ther [...] | 2006-07-10 06:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN PGOV ECON EAID AF |
| 06KABUL5584 | MUSA QALA AGREEMENT: OPPOSING INTERESTS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two delegations of Helmand Province elders and residents affected by the Musa Qala Agreement, each reflecting opposing forces fighting for control of the district, offered PolCounselor and Lashkar Gah PRTOFF very different assessments of the impact of the Agreement. The first [...] | 2006-11-27 01:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MARR EAID AF |
| 06KAMPALA1514 | UGANDA: PROGRESS ON GSP/AGOA ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uganda, Textile Unions, and Textile Manufacturers Association have made significant progress toward resolving the outstanding issues in the AFL-CIO GSP case. The Government,s passage of the new labor laws in May has been followed up with the signing of the impl [...] | 2006-08-08 13:34:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG ETRD PGOV PHUM ELAB UG |
| 06KHARTOUM881 | A RETURN TO YEI, ONE YEAR LATER [...] (SBU) Summary: CG Juba traveled to Yei on April 1 for a brief visit, almost exactly one year after his three-day visit to Yei as part of a Joint Assessment Mission team. The report from the prior trip described in detail the dilapidated condition of the town, located just north of the Ugand [...] | 2006-04-11 15:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM MARR PINS ASEC SU |
| 06KUWAIT4506 | APHSCT TOWNSEND BRIEFING AND TOUR OF KUWAIT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 14 November, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Frances Fragos Townsend received a briefing from Director of the Kuwait National Security Bureau (NSB) Shaykh Thamer Ali A. Al-Salem Al-Sabah and senior managers of Kuwait National [...] | 2006-11-25 10:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PTER KU OIL SECTOR |
| 06KUWAIT4511 | APHSCT TOWNSEND BRIEFING AND TOUR OF KUWAIT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 14 November, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Frances Fragos Townsend received a briefing from Director of the Kuwait National Security Bureau (NSB) Shaykh Thamer Ali A. Al-Salem Al-Sabah and senior managers of Kuwait National P [...] | 2006-11-25 11:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PTER KU OIL SECTOR |
| 06LAGOS333 | NIGERIA: HOSTAGE-TAKING, SITREP # 17 [...] (C) There has been no additional confirmed information about the condition of the remaining hostages. Delta State Governor Ibori is obtaining new photographs to demonstrate proof of life. -------------------- Hostage Negotiations -------------------- 2. (S/NF) Delta State Governor Ibor [...] | 2006-03-06 18:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS PINR ETRD CASC NI |
| 06LIBREVILLE216 | SAO TOME PARTIES JOCKEYING TO FORM GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Legislative elections in Sao Tome and Principe (STP) gave no party a majority of seats in the National Assembly (an institution that has much more power constitutionally than the Presidency). President de Menezes's MDFM party won the most seats, with 23 out of 55. De Menezes hope [...] | 2006-04-05 16:33:00 | Embassy Libreville | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TP GB |
| 06LIMA3887 | GOP MEDIATES END OF SIX-DAY PORT STRIKE [...] (SBU) A late-night deal on September 25, mediated by the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Labor and Trade, ended a strike that had closed Callao, Peru's largest port, for six days. Under the deal, the daily minimum wage for longshoremen was increased from USD 9.26 to USD 12.35, with special [...] | 2006-09-29 16:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV ELAB PGOV PE |
| 06LIMA3896 | PERU LNG: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES [...] SUMMARY: The Peru Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project is proceeding apace, bringing gas from the Camisea gas fields through to pipeline to LNG plant and marine terminal on Peru's coastline. A 2010 export target should deliver $200 million in GOP revenues and community projects per year, with [...] | 2006-09-29 22:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON ETRD EAID SENV PE |
| 06LONDON6448 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Sub-Committee (S/C) on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety (SLF) held its 49th session at IMO headquarters in London from July 24-28, 2006, under the chair of Mr. Rob Gehling (Australia). 59 Member Governments, 1 Associ [...] | 2006-09-06 15:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 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 08:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC ORTA |
| 06MADRID2281 | SPAIN: FM MORATINOS ON MIDEAST, NORTH AFRICA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his trip to Ronda in southern Spain's Andalucia region, Ambassador Aguirre spent the afternoon and evening of September 9 with Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos. Ambassador pressed Moratinos on recent incendiary comments from President Zapatero regarding Iraq, and he raise [...] | 2006-09-13 08:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SMIG SP |
| 06MANAMA1953 | CANDIDATES FOCUS ON LOCAL ISSUES WHILE SPECTER OF [...] (C) Two hundred seven candidates are contesting Bahrain's parliamentary elections to be held November 25 and December 2. In the run-up to the elections, campaign tents, posters and billboards have blossomed around the country and candidates host events nightly for constituents to get to kno [...] | 2006-11-22 13:08:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM KISL BA POL REFORM |
| 06MANILA2195 | DRUGS, CRIME, AND CORRUPTION CHALLENGE PEACE AND [...] (C) Summary. Widespread methamphetamine trafficking and abuse, organized crime, and endemic corruption are gnawing at the fabric of Muslim society in Mindanao. While Muslim clan leaders and political warlords sustain fiefdoms and private armies through sources of illicit income, the common p [...] | 2006-05-26 06:26:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL SNAR KISL KCRM RP |
| 06MINSK538 | Belarus Suffers Large Crop Loss, Still Expects [...] (SBU) Summary: Spring has finally come to Belarus and, along with it, President Aleksandr Lukashenko's mad fervor to attain an unrealistic harvest yield. Lukashenko raised the national quota of grain to 8.4 million tons, a 700,000-ton increase to Lukashenko's 2005 quota that was never achieved [...] | 2006-05-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
| 06MINSK555 | GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...] | 2006-05-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO |
| 06MINSK556 | GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...] | 2006-05-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO |
| 06MINSK557 | GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...] | 2006-05-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO |
| 06MOSCOW10984 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: PSAS -- THE VIEW FROM SAKHALIN AND [...] (C) Summary. From discussions in Moscow and Sakhalin this week, Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) may be out of favor, but they are far from being driven out of business. Shell (Sakhalin-2) appears to have dodged the bullet of having its environmental license revoked, but still faces tough [...] | 2006-09-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
| 06MOSCOW11310 | MANAGED DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: ASTRAKHAN REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In advance of October 8 regional elections, we visited Astrakhan Oblast and found: -- The Kremlin-backed United Russia party in the lead and expecting to gain a majority in the regional Duma; -- A popular United Russia governor who touts his ability to use his contacts in th [...] | 2006-10-06 16:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RS |
| 06NAHA228 | PAC3 SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED TO OKINAWA [...] (C) Summary: The introduction of the Patriot PAC-3 Air Defense Battalion into Okinawa is a success, with the locally (in Okinawa) most difficult part, the ground movement of sensitive equipment from port and pier to its destination within Kadena AFB, completed October 13. Despite some miscalc [...] | 2006-10-16 10:19:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS JA |
| 06NEWDELHI4255 | FOLLOW-UP WITH CERT-IN: COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff on June 6 revisited India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) for the third time, with SciCouns and EconOff accompanying. CERT-In is pursuing a multi-platform outreach program to cybersecurity experts in the public, private, and academic sectors. Although last [...] | 2006-06-16 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCIP TINT PINR IN |
| 06OSAKAKOBE526 | NORTH KOREAN SUPERNOTES SEIZED IN WESTERN [...] (SBU) On September 23, Kobe Customs officials and Tottori Prefectural Police raided the DPRK-flagged Kum Gang 1 freighter, which had entered the port of Sakaiminato in Tottori on the Japan Sea coast on September 19. The Japanese authorities took this unusual measure after two counterfeit sup [...] | 2006-09-25 07:47:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EFIS PREL KN JA |
| 06OTTAWA3564 | AFGHANISTAN: A/S BOUCHER'S DECEMBER 14-15 VISIT TO [...] (C) Welcome to Ottawa. Your visit provides a great opportunity to reinforce the improved relationship we have developed with Canada since you were here earlier this year. It will be an excellent chance to take stock of what we are doing together in Afghanistan and elsewhere in South Asia, to [...] | 2006-12-08 18:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR AF CA |
| 06PARIS7318 | INTERNATIONAL UNION'S LUNG CONFERENCE - PUNCHING ABOVE ITS [...] SUMMARY: The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease convened the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health from October 31 to November 4, 2006 in Paris, France. The Union's annual conference is the world's premier meeting of tuberculosis and public health experts dedicate [...] | 2006-11-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV KFLU FR |
| 06PRETORIA1195 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 24 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-03-24 11:18:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
| 06PRETORIA1290 | SAG ON HAMAS, PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, AND IRAQI DEBT [...] (C) Summary: The SAG is likely to continue to engage Hamas, including a visit by Intelligence Minister Kasrils and Deputy Foreign Minister Pahad to the Middle East region next week and a visit by Hamas leadership to South Africa at an undetermined date. DFA Chief Director for the Middle East [...] | 2006-03-30 16:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN KPAL IR IZ IS SF |
| 06PRETORIA990 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 10 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-03-10 07:59:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
| 06RANGOON235 | BURMA'S VAST INTERNMENT CAMP: NORTHERN RAKHINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a country where everyone is oppressed by the military, some are treated worse than others. In general, the ethnic minorities are treated worse than the ethnic Burman majority, and non-Buddhists face more restrictions on their religious practices. Charge visited Northern [...] | 2006-02-17 09:23:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EAID BM |
| 06ROME3272 | D'ALEMA TO CODEL WEXLER: MIDDLE EAST NEEDS NEW PUSH [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister D'Alema told visiting Congressman Wexler that the international community must press Israelis and Palestinians to kick start a new phase in peace negotiations, beginning with a genuine cease-fire and exchange of prisoners. He speculated that NATO could be a poss [...] | 2006-12-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | AF IR IS IZ LE NATO PGOV PREL SY XF IT |
| 06SANJOSE553 | Armed Robbers Target Tourists Near Airport [...] SUMMARY. Eleven armed robberies of tourists near the San Jose airport took place during a recent eight week period. It appears one group of four armed males is responsible. Post approached the GOCR, tourism officials and the AmCham in support of greater protection for tourists and an in- dept [...] | 2006-03-08 22:00:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CR |
| 06SANTODOMINGO761 | PROPOSAL FOR LABOR JUSTICE ACTIVITIES IN THE [...] The following is Embassy's response to request for project proposals. (Begin Text) Proposal for Labor Justice Activities in the Dominican Republic A. Characteristics of Labor Justice in the Dominican Republic: description and justification for proposed activities A study of cas [...] | 2006-03-03 14:54:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID ETRD SENV DR |
| 06SANTODOMINGO778 | CORRECTED: PROPOSAL FOR LABOR JUSTICE ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: This is the corrected 2006 Embassy request for funding of a Dominican Republic Labor Justice capacity building program to support implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic and the United States and enforcement of the Dominican Labor Law. This program [...] | 2006-03-03 23:08:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID ETRD KJUS DR |
| 06SEOUL889 | KOREAN TAX REFORMS DRAW FIRE, PASSAGE UNCERTAIN [...] (SBU) The Korean government introduced ambitious income tax reform legislation in February, proposing to raise certain value-added and excise taxes and tighten individual income tax loopholes favoring the wealthy and self-employed. But the proposals have run up against significant criticism fr [...] | 2006-03-20 06:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV KS |
| 06STATE89712 | FURTHER GUIDANCE ON THE SIPDIS CABLE CAPTION [...] (SBU) The Department in December 2005 distributed general guidance (05 State 00226504) concerning the use of the new SIPDIS distribution caption (5FAH-2 H-440). The SIPDIS caption (which means SIPRnet distribution) facilitates inter-agency information sharing, a top State Department priority [...] | 2006-06-02 16:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ACOA AOMS PINR KCCP |
| 06SUVA524 | TOURISM TAKES A NOSE-DIVE IN FIJI [...] (SBU) Managers of several of Fiji's top hotels told us the tourism industry is "bleeding" due to RFMF Commander Bainimarama's repeated threats to take action against the government. Occupancy for most major resorts in Fiji is 40% or below, when it should be in the 70-75% range this time of [...] | 2006-11-28 22:58:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CASC PGOV PREL FJ |
| 06TAIPEI3390 | DPP 20th Anniversary -- Many Depart Before Chen Speaks [...] (SBU) On September 30, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) held a march and a rally in Kaohsiung City to celebrate the party's twentieth anniversary. Although the parade route was shortened to one kilometer from the original plan of holding the parade throughout Kaohsiung City kilo [...] | 2006-10-02 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TW |
| 06TEGUCIGALPA1881 | (S) HONDURAS UNDER CAFTA: AFTER SIX MONTHS, [...] (S) Summary: Six months have passed since CAFTA entered into force for Honduras. President Zelaya's support was key to getting Honduras on board, and he continues to profess his support for capitalism and free markets. Yet when faced with making the reforms necessary to let a free market dev [...] | 2006-10-04 16:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | ETRD EPET ENRG PGOV VZ HO |
| 06TEGUCIGALPA2030 | Honduras: Latin American-Caribbean BioFuels Initiative [...] Summary: This cable responds to ref (A). Despite confusion and controversy in the traditional energy sector, Honduras has made real progress in biofuel development. Efforts are focused primarily on biodiesel, mainly through the cultivation of African Palm oil, and a consumer trial is now unde [...] | 2006-10-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ENRG PREL PGOV SENV TRGY ETRD HO |
| 06TELAVIV1628 | REP. SHAYS AND ISRAELI FM LIVNI DISCUSS HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Representative Christopher Shays April 20 that there is no Palestinian partner with whom Israel can negotiate. She described A/PM Ehud Olmert's "convergence" plan, in which Israel seeks to define a new eastern border after evacuating isol [...] | 2006-04-26 14:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KWBG KPAL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
| 06TELAVIV3590 | MOFAZ DISCUSSES KARNI CROSSING WITH THE AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Ambassador on September 6 that security is the main problem concerning Karni crossing, citing the 400-meter long tunnel discovered near there last week. Mofaz said that it would be important to see how the Palestinians will perform t [...] | 2006-09-08 16:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL PGOV IS |
| 06THEHAGUE1991 | NETHERLANDS/NATO: AMB. NULAND DISCUSSES ROAD TO [...] (C) Summary: During her September 8 visit to The Hague, U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Victoria Nuland discussed the road to Riga with FM Ben Bot, Dutch officials, parliamentarians and journalists. Nuland framed discussion with three top summit goals: 1) progress in Afghanistan; 2) a co [...] | 2006-09-12 13:39:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PGOV PREL AF NL |
| 06TOKYO1090 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/01/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO1321 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/13/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-13 07:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO1903 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/10/06-1 [...] The flight paths will avoid the skies over the Henoko, Toyohara, and Abu districts in Nago. 2. In determining the construction site based on the government's plan, consideration will be given to: (a) the safety of the residents near the new airfield; (b) natural conservation; and (c) th [...] | 2006-04-10 01:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO1978 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/12/06-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-12 08:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO2500 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/09/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-09 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO2768 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/19/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO2803 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/22/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-22 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO2873 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/24/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-25 00:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO3087 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/06/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-06 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO3368 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/19/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 07:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO3743 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/06/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-06 03:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO3755 | MEDIA REACTION Q LAUNCHING OF NORTH KOREAN [...] These six papers carried editorials strongly protesting North Korea's Wednesday launches into the Sea of Japan. 2. "Protest Against North Korea's Reckless Act" The liberal Asahi editorialized (7/6): "North Korea launched six missiles Wednesday morning and another later in the evening, brea [...] | 2006-07-06 05:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 06TOKYO3818 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/10/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-10 02:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO3996 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/19/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-19 01:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO4323 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08//06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-02 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO4486 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/10/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-10 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO4783 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/22/06 [...] Aso 2. Abe 3. Tanigaki Asia  [...] | 2006-08-22 00:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO4866 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/25/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-25 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO4926 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/29/06 [...] Morihiro Hosokawa 68% 2. Junichiro Koizumi 50% 3. Tsutomu Hata 47% 3. Toshiki Kaifu 47% 5. Hayato Ikeda 44% 6. Ryutaro Hashimoto 43% 7. Tanzan Ishibashi 41% 8. Yasuhiro Nakasone 40% 9. Eisaku Sato 38 [...] | 2006-08-29 04:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO4948 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/30/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-30 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO501 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/30/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-30 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO5562 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09//06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-26 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO5740 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/02/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-02 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO5858 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10//06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-10 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO5865 | MEDIA REACTION Q NORTH KOREA - TOKYO [...] "North Korea's Nuclear Test Deals Blow to Nonproliferation Regime" The liberal Asahi wrote (10/10): "It is inevitable that North Korea's announcement Monday that it conducted a nuclear test will deal a serious blow to the nonproliferation regime centered on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty [...] | 2006-10-10 05:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 06TOKYO5884 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/11/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-11 02:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO599 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/03/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TOKYO6294 | The Japan Economic Scope Q- Economic News At- [...] (SBU) Table of Contents 3. Keidanran Signals Renewed Opposition to Foreign Triangular Merger 4. Japan Ag: More Talk About Reform? 5. Unblocking Beef in Japan's Pipeline 6. Japan's Annual Southern Bluefin Tuna Catch Halved 7. Azadegan: EMIN Calls on METI, MOFA to Discuss Contract Chan [...] | 2006-10-30 22:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 06TOKYO827 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/16/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-16 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 06TUNIS2299 | LAW ADOPTED ON REDUCED HOURS FOR WOMEN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 18, the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies adopted a law that will allow some female employees to work part-time while still receiving two-thirds of their original salary. While the GOT states the law was motivated by a desire to allow Tunisians to balance family and professiona [...] | 2006-09-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI TS |
| 06TUNIS2321 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Tunis warmly welcomes the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) delegation's September 13-14 2006 visit to Tunisia. This cable provides a brief overview of the political situation in Tunisia, as well as a summary of the business climate. -------------------------- [...] | 2006-09-08 11:45:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER ASEC ECON TS |
| 06ULAANBAATAR593 | KHAANQUEST 2006 PEACEKEEPING EXERCISE SCENESETTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: KHAANQUEST 2006 IS THE PACIFIC-AREA GLOBAL PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS INITIATIVE (GPOI) CAPSTONE EVENT OF THE YEAR. IT HAS FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS: 1) A MULTINATIONAL FIELD TRAINING EXERCISE (FTX) FOCUSING ON PEACEKEEPING SKILLS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FIVE HILLS TRAINING CENTER, [...] | 2006-08-04 08:14:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL PGOV MG |
| 06VILNIUS645 | LITHUANIAN OIL REFINERY CONTINUES SEARCH FOR CRUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-placed GOL officials told us July 10 that Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) was on the brink of signing a contract with TNK-BP to bring a shipment of crude from Primorsk via tanker to MN's Baltic Sea terminal. MN's general manager (protect) says that MN is still [...] | 2006-07-11 13:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL ECON LH RU |
| 06VILNIUS727 | LITHUANIA'S CHOICE: FIGHT OR SURRENDER ITS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Lithuania and its Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery need to decide how to proceed, now that an "accident" has resulted in a complete cutoff in the refinery's pipeline-delivered supply of Russian crude. State Department Advisor Steve Hellman framed this issue for the Lithuanians d [...] | 2006-08-04 15:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | ENRG ECON PREL LH XG VE LY |
| 06WARSAW1592 | DEPARTMENT ENERGY ADVISER HELLMAN'S ENERGY [...] (C) Economics Ministry State Secretary Piotr Naimski told visiting State Department Energy Advisor Steve Hellman August 1 that Poland is very concerned by the cut-off of Russian oil shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery due to alleged 'accidents and technical difficulties.' The Pole [...] | 2006-08-04 08:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET LH PL PREL |
| 06YEREVAN910 | ARMENIA'S "LEAST COST" ENERGY FUTURE INCLUDES [...] (SBU) At a June 30 conference to plot out how Armenia's energy generation capability needs to change to match its projected demand, GOAM energy policy leaders and top USAID consultants presented persuasive arguments that Armenia must replace its aging nuclear power plant by 2015 with a new nuc [...] | 2006-07-06 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL KNNP AM |
| 06YEREVAN95 | KOCHARIAN ON TAX AND CUSTOMS: "A CASTE OF PARASITES..." [...] (U) Despite acknowledging limited improvements, President Kocharian strongly criticized the State Customs Committee and State Tax Service for failing to coordinate and for reported cases of corruption and smuggling which continued to undermine revenue collection during a working meeting with He [...] | 2006-01-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD AM |
| 07ABIDJAN1084 | COTE D'IVOIRE ROLLS OUT PRELIMINARY COCOA-CHILD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Prime Minister's interministerial taskforce rolled out preliminary results of its industry-funded survey of child labor in the cocoa sector on Oct. 12. It found that 22 percent of children in the region are involved in cocoa production, and a majority of them are involved [...] | 2007-10-24 14:34:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV |
| 07ABIDJAN1176 | DOES LACK OF DONOR ASSISTANCE EXPLAIN SLOW [...] (C) Summary: During a number of recent public events, President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro have blamed slow implementation of the Ougadougou Peace Agrement (OPA) on a lack of international donor assistance. The Prime Minister and President both made this assertion in meetings with the [...] | 2007-11-26 16:12:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IBRD IMF IV |
| 07ABIDJAN925 | COTTON, CASHEWS, TIMBER: MAINSTAYS OF THE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Cotton, cashews and forest products are the mainstays of the economy in the North and West, but each sector is experiencing varying levels of difficulty. Cotton production is down by 40 percent since the division of the country in 2002, and both producers and ginning enterpris [...] | 2007-09-04 07:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PGOV EAID ETRD SENV IV |
| 07ADANA123 | TURKEY: ADANA'S STAGNANT ECONOMY STILL AWAITING BTC-FUELED [...] (U) SUMMARY. Adana's business leaders are starting to develop alternatives to the big business-driven model that characterized the city's early growth. While an overvalued lira, financial mismanagement and removal of textile quotas in 2005 have led to closures of several large textile busin [...] | 2007-10-31 10:16:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PREL ENRG TU |
| 07ANKARA121 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 07ANKARA1411 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-06 11:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 07ANKARA2286 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 12:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 07ASMARA300 | MORE DETAILS: KIDNAPPED EUROPEANS RELEASE IN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On March 14, British Embassy officials provided additional details about the kidnapping and release of the five Europeans by the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Union Front (ARDUF). The British officials also shared a report issued by the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) [...] | 2007-03-15 14:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER ET ER |
| 07BAGHDAD3139 | UPDATE: OIL MINISTER ON HYDROCARBON FRAMEWORK LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON IZ KU ENRG PREL |
| 07BAGHDAD4046 | DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT,S DECEMBER 3 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani told Treasury D/S Kimmitt that Prime Minister Maliki and President Talibani have written a joint letter to KRG President Barzani stating that the KRG,s PSA arrangements with foreign companies are unconstitutional until they are reviewed by f [...] | 2007-12-13 06:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
| 07BAKU573 | AZERBAIJAN TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARDS IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, the Government of Azerbaijan took a first positive step to improving the business climate by instructing government ministries and agencies to review Azerbaijani regulations and laws in order to prepare a report on possible recommendations to facilitate business, incl [...] | 2007-05-11 12:06:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV AJ |
| 07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN87 | BRUNEI TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Please find below Post's report in preparation for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Please note paragraph numbering is keyed to reftel questions: -------- OVERVIEW -------- A. Brunei is not a major destination for trafficked persons, nor is it a source or transit country. [...] | 2007-03-09 06:43:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF BX |
| 07BEIJING2103 | CHINA MISSION 2007 SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION: [...] (SBU) This is part two of the Mission's reporting on "Special 301" related developments. The Mission's recommendations that China should once again be placed on the Priority Watch List, with Section 306 monitoring, and considered for an appropriate WTO case on IPR, were set forth in the first [...] | 2007-03-30 00:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON WTRO CH |
| 07BEIJING5898 | XINJIANG POLICE: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM THREATENS [...] (C) Representatives Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) visited Urumqi, Kashi and China's border with Kyrgyzstan during an August 29-31 trip to the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Public Security Bureau officials simultaneously touted the success of anti-terrorism efforts in Xinjiang w [...] | 2007-09-09 22:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER OREP SNAR PREL PRGOV TI PK KG AF CH |
| 07BEIRUT229 | LEBANON: LEBANESE FORCES' GEAGEA BELIEVES CIVIL [...] (C) In a 2/9 meeting with the Ambassador and emboff, leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF),Dr. Samir Geagea, stated that civil war is inevitable and there is no choice but to make appropriate preparations. He said U.S. help to the LF is the same as help to the Lebanese state, given that the [...] | 2007-02-12 17:01:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE SY IS |
| 07BRUSSELS3530 | U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING GENERATES WIDE-RANGING [...] (SBU) Officials from the United States and the European Union (EU) engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of drug issues at a US-EU Troika Meeting in Brussels on November 14. The U.S. Delegation, led by Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Christy McCampbell of the International Narcotics and Law En [...] | 2007-12-21 10:22:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EU |
| 07BUCHAREST897 | MONEY AND POLITICS: WHO REALLY OWNS ROMANIA? [...] (C) Summary. Romania's transition from communism and the ensuing privatization of state enterprises hugely benefited a small group of individuals with connections to the immediate post-Communist regime and/or the ubiquitous Securitate. Some of these individuals leveraged information and relati [...] | 2007-08-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON RO SOCI |
| 07BUDAPEST1150 | CONFIDENT VERES AGAINST OMV-MOL MERGER; BULLISH ON [...] (U) This message contains an action request. See paragraph 4. 2.(C) Summary: In a relaxed lunch meeting with Ambassador Foley, Finance Minister Janos Veres and State Secretary Almos Kovacs frankly discussed their desire to sidetrack the OMV/MOL merger and their interest in developing a sy [...] | 2007-07-16 12:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ENRG HU |
| 07CAIRO2835 | LEADING AVIAN INFLUENZA EXPERT, DR. DAVID SWAYNE, VISITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. David Swayne, Director of the Southeast Poultry Research Lab and leading expert on Avian Influenza (AI),met with the week of August 26 with Government of Egypt (GOE),non-government organization (NGO) and private sector poultry entities. USAID approved USD 8.2 million in f [...] | 2007-09-19 13:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA KFLU EAGR PGOV EG |
| 07CANBERRA1697 | RUDD ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd announced his 20-member Cabinet November 29. It is a talented line-up that strikes a balance between different regions and the Labor Party's left and right-wing factions. Rudd honored his undertaking to retain his core economic team - Julia Gilla [...] | 2007-11-29 07:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ECON ETRD AS |
| 07CARACAS906 | THE THIRD MOTOR OF CHAVEZ' REVOLUTION: [...] (C) Summary. President Hugo Chavez and his brother Adan Chavez, are leading ambitious Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) efforts to transform the country's educational system from top to bottom. The proposed reforms and a public education "Morality and Enlightenment" campaign are designe [...] | 2007-05-04 20:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB SOCI VE |
| 07COLOMBO1093 | SRI LANKA: EAST DEVELOPMENT -- TRINCOMALEE NOT READY TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trincomalee, the eastern seaboard town boasting one of Asia's finest natural harbors, is underdeveloped and depressed as a result of over two decades of civil war in Sri Lanka. The government wants to translate its recent reassertion of control over the east into development, mu [...] | 2007-08-08 11:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV PTER CE |
| 07COLOMBO699 | HUMANITARIAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN THE [...] (U) Summary: USAID Program Officer traveled to Trincomalee District April 22-26, 2007 to assess the humanitarian and human rights situation. The following organizations and locations were visited: the Human Rights Commission?s field office, ICRC, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNOCHA, World Food Program (W [...] | 2007-05-15 10:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF CE |
| 07CURACAO938 | CURACAO: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Netherlands together form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The two Caribbean parts of the Kingdom have autonomy over their internal affairs, with the right to exercise independent decision making in a number of counter narcotics areas. The Government of [...] | 2007-11-27 19:04:00 | Consulate Curacao | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM NA AA |
| 07DHAKA252 | 2006 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Per reftel A, Econoff visited the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) laboratory in Dhaka on February 12 to verify the INL-funded equipment and discuss their use in the lab. The DNC was helpful in arranging the visit and the lab's chief and his deputy were cooperative and willing to answer a [...] | 2007-02-14 06:44:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN BG |
| 07DOHA359 | SECURITY OBSERVATIONS AT QATAR'S ENERGY PORTS [...] (C) Summary. Security at Qatar's most important ports, Ras Laffan and Mesaieed, currently meet the basic standards for infrastructure protection but many improvements could be made. Both ports are in the process of upgrading security with new equipment including x-ray units for passenger cars [...] | 2007-04-04 14:37:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ASEC PGOV QA |
| 07DUSHANBE256 | TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENING COULD HELP HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN [...] (C) The U.S.-funded bridge between Tajikistan and Afghanistan serves as the most visible symbol of our efforts to link South and Central Asia and establish lasting trade and transportation ties between the two regions. In Tajikistan, where the Chinese, Russians and Iranians have all donated [...] | 2007-02-16 12:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TI AF |
| 07DUSHANBE643 | TAJIK MINISTRY OF INTERIOR OFFICIALS EVICT RESIDENTS, TAKE [...] On April 26 Ministry of Interior officials forcefully evicted residents who illegally occupied a rundown 52-unit building in Dushanbe. When PolOff arrived on the scene, at least 30 police officers had surrounded the area, and one fire truck and an ambulance were poised and ready for emergenci [...] | 2007-04-30 17:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM TI |
| 07FREETOWN709 | WORLD AIDS DAY: WHERE IS SIERRA LEONE? [...] SUMMARY: As World AIDS Day approaches (Dec. 1),it appears that Sierra Leone's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is reportedly low, officially at 1.53%, although some sources believe it to be higher. Th military's prevalence is higher. Efforts to combat HIV/AIDS are coordinated by the National HIV/A [...] | 2007-11-28 16:44:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI TBIO PREL EAID SL |
| 07GEORGETOWN141 | GUYANA PREPARES FOR FIRST PETROCARIBE OIL DELIVERY [...] (U) Petrocaribe is making its formal debut in Guyana in May amid unrealistic expectations. Optimistic Guyanese government leaders are prepared to reap its promised benefits but unprepared for the logistics and ramifications of doing business under the untested program. GoG officials also exp [...] | 2007-02-07 20:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL ENRG PBTS XL VE GY |
| 07HARARE1002 | BFIF FUNDING ONCE AGAIN CATALYZES PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On October 2, for the second consecutive year, the American Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ),generously supported by the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF) and the private secto [...] | 2007-11-07 14:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV ZI |
| 07JAKARTA1656 | A/S MULL UPDATES BILATERAL POLITICAL-MILITARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In meetings with Indonesian foreign-affairs and defense counterparts in Jakarta on June 4-5, Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull pressed for Indonesian accession to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),proposed a reciprocal Article 98 ag [...] | 2007-06-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR PHUM PGOV ID |
| 07JAKARTA2610 | U/S JEFFERY BRIEFED ON ANTI-CORRUPTION REFORM SUCCESSES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders told visiting Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III September 10 that they have "caught some big fish" (e.g. former governors),but anti-corruption reform will take decades. [...] | 2007-09-18 00:05:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID |
| 07JOHANNESBURG35 | SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE ASSAY" -- [...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly 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, chrom [...] | 2007-02-02 14:47:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ENRG EINV ECON SF |
| 07KABUL1542 | AFGHANISTAN - TRUCKER STRIKE DISRUPTS COMMERCE AND DELIVERY [...] (SBU) A truckers' strike called by a Peshawar-based transport association has stopped containerized traffic from entering Afghanistan at the Torkham border crossing since April 27. The truckers are protesting taxes, bribes and illegal collections they have to pay on the highway between Torkha [...] | 2007-05-07 11:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ETRD MOPS PREL KCRM ELAB ASUP AMGT AF |
| 07KAPALA518 | UGANDA: QUESTIONABLE WORLD BANK TENER DECISION AFFECTS US [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Uganda GOU) conducted a tender for 50 megawatts of theral generators to help alleviate the current gap n power brought on by diminished hydroelectric powr. and moved to consider the bid ranked second. After reviewing tender bids, including additionalsupporting [...] | 2007-03-26 09:00:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PGOV UG |
| 07KINSHASA1313 | UNHRO REPORTS MASS GRAVES, MASS RAPE, AND ILLEGAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations Human Rights Office (UNHRO) recently made public its Monthly Human Rights Assessment of the DRC for September 2007. The report described 70 different cases of abuse committed by armed groups including Nkunda forces, Mayi Mayi militia, and FARDC soldiers. This [...] | 2007-11-27 08:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS KPKO CG |
| 07KINSHASA1316 | November 24 Goma Update [...] (SBU) The FARDC attacked a CNDP position above the Goma-Rutshuru road near Rugari yesterday morning. A Dakar-based AP team reported observing FARDC troops loading mobile rocket-launders onto trucks in the vicinity around midday following the action. They said a FARDC colonel told them CNDP p [...] | 2007-11-27 15:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG |
| 07KINSHASA389 | BEMBA WEAPONS CACHE SEIZED IN EQUATEUR [...] (C) Summary: MONUC and Congolese military (FARDC) officials have seized an estimated 200 tons of weapons and ammunition belonging to the forces of Jean-Pierre Bemba in Equateur province. The cache, located in an abandoned soft drink factory in Gbadolite, near the border with the CAR, contained [...] | 2007-04-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS PINR PINS UG TZ LY CG |
| 07LAPAZ3230 | PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY. [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to any cooperation with the United States is hamstringing USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately [...] | 2007-12-11 19:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3236 | PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to cooperation with the United States is hampering USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately US$6 [...] | 2007-12-12 15:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LIMA2026 | DECENTRALIZATION: GOVERNMENT AMBIVALENCE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Decentralization -- the transfer of administrative responsibility from the national government to regions and municipalities -- is a cornerstone of the Garcia government's state reform plan. In pursuit of this policy, President Garcia recently signed a decree transferring 185 f [...] | 2007-06-11 15:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD EINV PE |
| 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 15:18:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC ORTA |
| 07MADRID1430 | SPAIN/ETA: DESPITE RECENT GOVERNMENT SUCCESSES, [...] (U) SUMMARY: As Spaniards settle into summer vacation mode, the government, the press, and the public continue to focus on the likelihood of a significant attack by the Basque terrorist group ETA. Since ETA broke its self-declared cease-fire on June 6, the government has showed a strong hand [...] | 2007-07-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP |
| 07MADRID2066 | SPAIN/INCSR: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 11:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM EFIN SP |
| 07MANILA3033 | PHILIPPINE DEFENSE SECRETARY EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's initial call with new Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro, the two discussed the strong U.S.-Philippine relationship, particularly joint efforts on counterterrorism and military reform, and the need to better educate the Philippine Congress on [...] | 2007-09-07 08:04:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
| 07MONROVIA1033 | LIBERIA: 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 17:01:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV FAA LI |
| 07MOSCOW3339 | Moscow Wi-Fi: Hotspots Amid an Internet Trend [...] SUMMARY: Internet in Russia is slowly gaining ground across the country, albeit impeded by limited provision of broadband service and lack of personal computers. Wireless and high-speed Internet is taking hold in larger cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. Wi-Fi hotspots are increasingly [...] | 2007-07-09 11:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT ECPS ECON TINT RS |
| 07MOSCOW5154 | ADDRESSING RUSSIAN ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary: FM Lavrov's disinterest in establishing an expert level dialogue on arms sales begs the question of how best to address our concerns over Russia's arms export policy. Russian officials are deeply cynical about our motives in seeking to curtail Russian arms exports to countries of conce [...] | 2007-10-26 02:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL ECON MARR MASS PARM PINR PINS RS |
| 07MUSCAT900 | RESPONSE TO 100% SCANNING REQUIREMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Contacts at Port of Salalah expressed concern that new scanning requirements for maritime cargo under the USG's 9/11 Act will negatively affect trade at the port. They mentioned specifically that scanning 100% of U.S.-bound cargo for radioactive material and components of weapo [...] | 2007-09-19 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER MU |
| 07NEWDELHI3462 | INDIA'S LEFT FRONT (C-NE7-01274) [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel's request for reporting on the Left Front in India, Post has compiled below a list of reporting out of Chennai, Kolkata, and New Delhi on the Left from the past year. There is a negligible Left presence in the Mumbai Consulate district. The cables below re [...] | 2007-07-31 09:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
| 07NEWDELHI3844 | DELHI DIARY, AUG 04-22 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 4-22, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Opens a 22-year-old "Rulebook" to Keep Other Government Entities Out of Foreign Affairs -- Indo-Pak Border to Open for Trade October [...] | 2007-08-22 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR KISL KWBG KPAL ELTN AS |
| 07NEWDELHI4212 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 10-14, 2007. NEW MORE LIBERAL AND RATIONAL FDI POLICY IN OCTOBER ------------------------- 2. (U) Director Gauri Singh in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion at Ministry of [...] | 2007-09-14 10:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN |
| 07NEWDELHI4487 | DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 4 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for September 28-October 4, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Trucks Cross Indo-Pak Border for the First Time in 60 Years -- New Army Chief Assumes Office -- Protests and Rallies Portend [...] | 2007-10-04 10:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELTN MARR MOPS PHUM PK IN |
| 07NIAMEY128 | NIGER TRIP REPORTS (1) ILLELA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SMALL [...] (U) In December, Poloff conducted extensive travel to Niger's Tahoua and Agadez Regions. One outcome was a series of in-house trip reports providing readers with background on the issues, people, and preoccupations of several key towns and sub-regions. With the expectation that such a "virtual [...] | 2007-02-13 08:25:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EAID ECON SOCI SMIG SENV NG |
| 07OTTAWA2125 | SCENESETTER FOR CANADA POLICY PLANNING TALKS, [...] (C) Summary: Stephen Harper leads one of the most stable minority governments in Canadian history. He is a Western conservative who came to power on a domestic agenda but has been surprisingly focused on foreign affairs. Harper's foreign policy style includes a halting transition from "peac [...] | 2007-11-20 23:06:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CA |
| 07OTTAWA345 | AFGHANISTAN: A/S BOUCHER'S DECEMBER 14-15 VISIT TO [...] (C) Welcome to Ottawa. Your visit provides a great opportunity to reinforce the improved relationship we have developed with Canada since you were here earlier this year. It will be an excellent chance to take stock of what we are doing together in Afghanistan and elsewhere in South Asia, to [...] | 2007-02-23 22:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR AF CA |
| 07OTTAWA819 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SCHWAB'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Welcome back to Ottawa, Ambassador Schwab. This cable offers background information on Canada,s political and economic environment, especially on issues that may be raised outside the formal agenda of your talks with Trade Minister Emerson. Information regarding Canada-Brazil relations [...] | 2007-05-07 18:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | BR CA ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL |
| 07PARIS1283 | ELECTION SNAPSHOT: UNINFORMATIVE POLLS, URBAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three weeks from the April 22 first-round of France's presidential election, center-right former Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Poitou-Charentes Region President Segolene Royal remain in the lead. Francois Bayrou, head of the centrist Union for French Democra [...] | 2007-03-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
| 07PARIS2725 | ADDRESSING RUSSIAN ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary: FM Lavrov's disinterest in establishing an expert level dialogue on arms sales begs the question of how best to address our concerns over Russia's arms export policy. Russian officials are deeply cynical about our motives in seeking to curtail Russian arms exports to countries of conce [...] | 2007-06-26 07:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MARR MASS PARM PINR PINS RS |
| 07PRAGUE992 | CZECH ELECTRICITY GIANT'S MURKY GOVERNMENT CONNECTION MEANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Rising electricity prices, increasing demand from a robust economy, and a low cost generation fleet have led Czech electricity company CEZ Group (67.61% state owned) to become the most profitable company in the Czech Republic for the last two years. The lack of trans [...] | 2007-08-29 14:53:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV EZ |
| 07PRETORIA1 | SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL LED BY CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome the visit of your congressional delegation to South Africa. My staff and I stand ready to do everything we can to make your trip a success. You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only two weeks after Jacob Zuma defeated incumbent Thabo Mbeki [...] | 2007-12-31 16:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV PREL PGOV SF |
| 07PRETORIA1211 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 5, 2007 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 7, issue 14 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News weekly newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Mineral Rights Expropriation Claims Push SA to Extend Claim - Mittal Steel's New Kiln Project Draws Criticism - Wine Industry Falters in 2 [...] | 2007-04-05 12:59:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 07PRISTINA677 | KOSOVO: TECHNICAL, FINANCIAL, POLITICAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo's energy sector is dominated by Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK),a publicly-owned, vertically integrated monopoly that provides ninety-eight percent of Kosovo's electricity. With help from contractors provided by USAID, KEK has made significant improvements in its operatio [...] | 2007-09-10 13:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV UNMIK KV |
| 07QUITO978 | EMBASSY QUITO WELCOMES D VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Please accept my warmest welcome of your upcoming return to Ecuador. With Ecuador's government having recently passed the 100-day mark, your visit comes at a time of opportunity to advance mutual interests, and also to review some concerns about the direction the government is [...] | 2007-04-30 20:36:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON EAID WHA EC |
| 07RIYADH1987 | JOINT WORKING GROUP ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE [...] This message has been cleared by DOE A/S Kolevar. ---------- Summary ---------- 2. (S) On September 11, the US-Saudi Joint Working Group (JWG) on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) met at the Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Riyadh, co-chaired by the MOI Director of Modernization [...] | 2007-09-26 09:42:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | KCIP EPET ENERG PTER ASEC SA |
| 07SAOPAULO71 | RIO GRANDE DO SUL: AN ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT [...] (U) Summary: Econoff and Econ Specialist traveled recently to Rio Grande do Sul (RGS),the southernmost state in Brazil located approximately 1100 km south of Sao Paulo. The state, which borders both Argentina and Uruguay, has a population of 10.3 million inhabitants, which represents 5.1 pe [...] | 2007-01-30 19:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EINV EWWT EAGR ELAB KIPR ETRD ECON ECIN SOCI |
| 07SARAJEVO1068 | BOSNIA - THE STATE PROSECUTOR AND STATE COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 26 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica from July 11, 1995 has placed the issue of war crimes prsecutions near the top of the Bosnian political genda. The current political environment has highlghted criti [...] | 2007-05-16 14:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KAWC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL BK |
| 07SEOUL1261 | UPDATE OF LABOR INFORMATION FOR MANDATORY US-KOREA FREE [...] (U) Original questions are included below from reftel. Answers to questions follow after each question. LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR LABOR RIGHTS 2. (U) Question: Please provide a detailed summary of all new labor legislation passed in 2006 and 2007. Please provide copies of the text of this l [...] | 2007-05-01 07:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KS ECIN ECON ELAB ETRD EAID |
| 07SEOUL3026 | ROK-DPRK SUMMIT DECLARATION: AMBITIOUS PLAN WILL [...] (C) The "Declaration on the Advancement of South-North Korean Relations, Peace and Prosperity" that emerged from the October 2-4 summit between President Roh Moo-hyun and the DPRK's Kim Jong-il is a "Sunshine Policy" manifesto: an action plan for peace-building and engagement that progressi [...] | 2007-10-05 10:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS ECON PGOV PREL |
| 07SHANGHAI101 | PRE-PARTY CONGRESS INFIGHTING OVER PERSONNEL INTENSIFIES [...] (S) Summary. According to multiple East China contacts, the central party leadership was increasingly split over personnel issues and would only become more fractured with the approach of the 2007 Party Congress. Vice President Zeng Qinghong was trying to work out a compromise that would all [...] | 2007-02-14 07:22:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH |
| 07SUVA177 | FIJI UPDATE 3/22/07: CORRUPTION COMPARISONS; A [...] (C) A Transparency International poll taken in Fiji before the coup indicates people were not shocked by corruption in the Qarase era. Overall, Fiji stacked up quite favorably compared to global and regional results, which suggests, no surprise, that the need for a "clean up" was not really wh [...] | 2007-03-21 20:37:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR ASEC FJ |
| 07TAIPEI1704 | TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES THRIVE, BUT LOCAL [...] (SBU) Faced with rising fuel costs, some of Taiwan's airlines are struggling to stay in business. The two international carriers, China Airlines and EVA Airways, are expanding routes in Asia as a central component of their future growth, and the Taiwan to Hong Kong and Macau routes are extrem [...] | 2007-07-31 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PREL EINV ETRD TW CH |
| 07TASHKENT1679 | FERGHANA VALLEY COTTON HARVEST IN FULL SWING [...] (C) Summary: The cotton harvest is in full swing in the Ferghana Valley. A deputy hokim (mayor) in the Ferghana town of Oltiaryq told poloffs on September 12 that he expected the cotton harvest in his region to exceed the previous two years. However, despite the deputy hokim's rosy outlook, [...] | 2007-09-24 09:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON ELAB EAGR SOCI UZ |
| 07TASHKENT2064 | GOU INTERNAL SECURITY CAPABILITIES AND PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan's vast internal security apparatus would play a critical role in any GOU efforts to deter or respond to civil disturbances. Security forces have trained to improve interoperability and to overcome potential breakdowns in command and control since 2005. We are not awar [...] | 2007-12-03 11:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PBTS MCAP SOCI PHUM ECON UZ |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA509 | HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT [...] (SBU) Summary: After 14 months in office, the Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, faces the difficult task of leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Honduras are excellent. Honduras was the first country in the Wester [...] | 2007-03-22 22:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON MOPS SNAR PTER SOCI HO |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA584 | HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: After 15 months in office, the Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, faces the difficult task of leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Honduras are excellent. Honduras was the first country in the Wester [...] | 2007-04-09 20:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON MOPS SNAR PTER SOCI HO |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA585 | HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON [...] (SBU) Summary: After 15 months in office, the Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, faces the difficult task of leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Honduras are excellent. Honduras was the first country in the Wester [...] | 2007-04-09 20:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON MOPS SNAR PTER SOCI HO |
| 07TOKYO1218 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1324 | The Japan Economic Scope - February 23, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from February 23, 2007. 2. (U) Table of Contents 3. Vice President Cheney's Visit to Japan 4. Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy Reflects on Regulatory Reform 5. Triangular Mergers: the Good, the Bad and the Possibly Ugly 6. Do [...] | 2007-03-26 02:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO1541 | The Japan Economic Scope - April 6, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from April 6, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents 3. Japan Feels the Pressure from US-Korea FTA 4. Japan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement Signed 5. Hokkaido Gubernatorial Candidates Oppose EPA with Australia 6. Fukuoka Company Officials C [...] | 2007-04-10 00:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO1800 | The Japan Economic Scope - April 20, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from April 20, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents 3. Japan joins China/IPR WTO case as third party 4. ANRE's Mochizuki Discusses East China Sea, G8 Summit, IEA 5. Japan Issues Annual Report on Trade Compliance, U.S. Remains Top of List [...] | 2007-04-24 00:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO1934 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/01/07-3 [...] Bills sponsored by government and ruling parties 2. Minshuto-sponsored bill National referendum bill  [...] | 2007-05-01 04:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1957 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 00:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2721 | The Japan Economic Scope - June 14, 2007 Part 2 [...] (U) This cable contains part two the Japan Economic Scope from June 14, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents 3. Citigroup Assumes Full Control of Nikko Cordial Brokerage 4. New Earthquake Insurance Policy Process Raises Concern among U.S. 5. MLIT Postpones Downgrade of Itami Airport 6. [...] | 2007-06-15 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO30 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-05 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3077 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3820 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 01:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO385 | The Japan Economic Scope - January 25, 2007 [...] (SBU) Table of Contents 3. Keidanren Tells Ambassador Position on M&A "Misunderstood" 4. Kansai Association of Corporate Executives: Support for Agriculture Reforms, Abe's Survivability 5. Keidanren Hasn't Given Up on Doha 6. U.S.-Japan Reg Reform Talks Commence 7. Financial Servi [...] | 2007-01-29 06:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO401 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 07:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO44 | The Japan Economic Scope - Economic News At-A- [...] (SBU) Table of Contents 3. Unemployment Dips to Under 4% 4. Cabinet Approves Conservative Regular Budget for FY07 5. New Tax Commission Chairman Pro-Growth 6. METI "Investment Security" Study Group: Japan's "Exon-Florio"? 7. CPRR Issues Mixed Final Reform Recommendations 8. Japan Pos [...] | 2007-01-09 05:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO4648 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4721 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/09/07 [...] Purpose of the law In order to contribute positively and independently to the efforts of the international community to stop and eliminate international terrorism, refueling operations by the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) toward the vessels of each country participating in maritime interdiction [...] | 2007-10-09 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4784 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-12 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5018 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5063 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5175 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 01:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5290 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 22:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5338 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5376 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5502 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/10/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5573 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5689 | The Japan Economic Scope--December 28, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from December 28, 2007. 2. (SBU) Table of Contents Japanese Government Moves 3. Personnel Shuffle at MOFA? 4. Reg Reform is Back 5. Japan Halts Plans to Start Hunting Humpback Whales Planes and Trains 5. Rail Improvement Cut in [...] | 2007-12-31 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO645 | The Japan Economic Scope - February 9, 2007 [...] (SBU) Table of Contents 3. Inbound FDI Negative for 2006, Japan Likely to Miss Five-Year FDI Target 4. Keidanren Chairman Visits Australia, Wants an FTA 5. Japanese Reaction to U.S. WTO Subsidy Case Against China 6. The New Reg Reform Council Launched 7. EMIN Meets Niigata and Kan [...] | 2007-02-14 08:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO807 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO821 | The Japan Economic Scope - February 23, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from February 23, 2007. 2. (U) Table of Contents 3. Vice President Cheney's Visit to Japan 4. Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy Reflects on Regulatory Reform 5. Triangular Mergers: the Good, the Bad and the Possibly Ugly 6. Do [...] | 2007-02-27 07:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07ULAANBAATAR703 | MONGOLIA'S NEW CABINET: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY [...] (S) This cable provides analysis of the new 16-member Cabinet of Mongolian Prime Minister S.Bayar and identifies the Ministers' strengths, weaknesses, likely objectives and challenges. A separate cable will follow on the balance of power in Parliament and political parties' prospects for succ [...] | 2007-12-20 06:12:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | SECRET | PREL MARR ECON SENV KCOR SOCI PGOV MG |
| 07YAOUNDE837 | CAMEROON'S COCOA SECTOR: ECONOMIC AND LABOR ISSUES [...] (U) PolOff recently met with Bill Guyton, president of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and separately with representatives from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The USDA's focus is on disease prevention in the cocoa sector, while WCF addresses primarily world market developme [...] | 2007-06-29 11:17:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CM ELAB ECON EAGR PHUM |
| 08ABIDJAN37 | COTE 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 16:00:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN ELTN EWWT IV |
| 08ABUJA1311 | NIGERIA: NEW POWER SECTOR STRATEGIC PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Upon taking office, President Yar'Adua made the power sector the first priority in his seven-point agenda. One year after the President's inauguration, Nigeria experiences regular power outages and load shedding due to a host of reasons. The major problems are inadequate mainte [...] | 2008-07-09 10:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV EAID NI |
| 08ADDISABABA191 | ETHIOPIA'S HIDES, SKINS AND LEATHER SECTOR [...] SUMMARY: The hides, skins and leather (HSL) sector is a priority area in the Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) economic development plan. While Ethiopia has the potential to produce large amounts of very high-quality leather, problems of poor quality inputs, over-capacity in tanneries, and a low [...] | 2008-01-24 12:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EINV EAID ET |
| 08AMMAN2822 | JORDAN DECLARES COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING TIP DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large Mark Lagon, Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) discussed steps taken by the GOJ to eliminate trafficking conditions in Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) and solutions to deal with trafficking-relate [...] | 2008-10-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP BG ID CE RP IN JO |
| 08ANTANANARIVO224 | LIFE IN A "WILD WEST" SAPPHIRE MINING TOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ilakaka, a town in Madagascar's southwest, is known both for the lucrative sapphire trade and its social consequences, including crime and exploitative labor. Most stories depict a dangerous town reminiscent of the "Wild West," where men stroll around carrying guns on their hips. [...] | 2008-03-19 14:06:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM SMIG ECON ELAB EAID SOCI MA |
| 08ASHGABAT206 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 7, USAID Country Representative met with the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights to discuss areas of potential cooperation outlined in the letter received from the Ministry of Forei [...] | 2008-02-11 03:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
| 08ASHGABAT511 | TURKMENISTAN: U/S JEFFERY'S APRIL 21 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Reuben Jeffery visited Ashgabat on April 21. The overall tone of the visit was decidedly positive, even though several of the meetings were head-bangingly Soviet. Alt [...] | 2008-04-24 05:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EAID TX |
| 08ASMARA324 | EGYPT'S ERITREAN DEPORTEES LAND IN MASSAWA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy inquiries regarding Egypt's deportation of Eritreans were met with deception, lack of knowledge, and surprising openness from different sources. A well-placed Embassy source informed Emboffs of Egypt Air's deportation flights to Massawa, a location more concealed for Eg [...] | 2008-06-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SU EG ER |
| 08ASMARA362 | ERITREA TEMPORARILY AVOIDS FUEL CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Eritrea managed to avoid an electricity supply disaster in June by finding a new supplier of generator lubricant. An unknown supplier is sending a barge to restock Eritrea's depleted automotive and aviation fuel supplies. Embassy Asmara will receive its diesel fuel the week of [...] | 2008-07-21 08:34:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG PINR ASEC ER |
| 08ASMARA490 | BISHA MINING'S REMAINING CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Bisha Mining's Stan Rogers said extraction of gold is on schedule to begin in 2010. The present condition of roads and bridges between the mining site and the port cannot handle the weight of the trucks, and 25 megawatts of electricity are needed to operate the mine. Financing [...] | 2008-10-07 12:26:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN PGOV ER |
| 08ASTANA2345 | KAZAKHSTAN'S MAEC-KAZATOMPROM FACES FUNDING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 5, DCM and poloff visited Mangystau Atomic Energy Complex (MAEC),a subsidiary of Kazatomprom, to attend the construction completion ceremony of the U.S.-funded Sodium Processing Facility on the terri [...] | 2008-11-25 10:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG KNNP TX KZ |
| 08ASTANA2392 | KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, November 9 - [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press and has not been verified for accuracy. -- National Bank Eases Reserve Requirements -- Use of the National Fund Criticized -- New Appointme [...] | 2008-12-04 01:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EIND ENRG EPET KTDB KZ |
| 08BAGHDAD1251 | MCNS APRIL 20: RULE OF LAW, MOSUL AND BASRAH [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Topics covered at the April 20 MCNS session included implementation of the Amnesty Law (cases are moving through the system - but there were concerns that some judicial review committees were approving too many); planning for military operations in Mosul (additional for [...] | 2008-04-23 01:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ECON IZ IR |
| 08BAGHDAD1601 | IRANIAN-BACKED PARTIES PREPARED TO DOMINATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The failure of the Shiite religious parties since 2005 to improve the daily lives of average Iraqis has left many Shia disillusioned. In Muthanna, nationalist, tribal, technocratic, and secular groups are coalescing to offer a [...] | 2008-05-25 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IZ IR |
| 08BAGHDAD3381 | SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...] | 2008-10-22 07:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ |
| 08BAGHDAD3382 | SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...] | 2008-10-22 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ |
| 08BAGHDAD4058 | SUMMING UP IRAQ'S YEAR OF ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih declared in January that 2008 was to be Iraq's year of combating corruption but Iraq has made only incremental gains in doing so. Salih issued an 18-point plan to fight administrative corruption that was issued in the PM,s name, of which four [...] | 2008-12-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
| 08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN80 | BRUNEI TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Please find below Post's submission in preparation for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Please note paragraph designations are keyed to reftel questions: -------- OVERVIEW -------- A. Brunei is not a major destination for trafficked persons, nor is it a source or transit c [...] | 2008-02-28 06:57:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
| 08BEIJING3275 | BEIJING 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, political, and consular activities related to the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games as of 08/25/2008. 2. (U) The interagency USG Joint Operations Center (JOC) can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following n [...] | 2008-08-25 07:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CH CMGT ECON KOLY OVIP PREL PTER |
| 08BISHKEK293 | EMBASSY BISHKEK RESPONSES TO RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (C/NF) Recommendation 1: Embassy Bishkek should continue to coordinate with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations to ensure near term installation of locally fabricated mantraps for the vehicle entrances to the embassy compound. (Action: Embassy Bishkek, in coordination with OBO) Ma [...] | 2008-03-27 09:02:00 | Embassy Bishkek | SECRET//NOFORN | AMGT ASEC ASIG AISG |
| 08BOGOTA2798 | SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 7-9 VISIT OF ACTING DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Amid strong economic growth, pro-investment policies, improved security, and targeted U.S. assistance, Colombia finds itself safer, economically stronger, better governed, and more democratic than it has been in decades. Foreign direct investment and trade, led by the energy [...] | 2008-08-01 12:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV PREL CO |
| 08BRASILIA1356 | BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 16-17 VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, the result of the excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, new cooperation mechanisms on biofuels, the CEO Forum, racial integr [...] | 2008-10-10 20:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 08BRUSSELS1879 | DISCUSSIONS AT NOVEMBER 14 U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING [...] (C) Discussions at the November 14 U.S.-European Union (EU) Troika meeting on Drug Issues confirmed U.S.-EU convergence on most drug issues. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Affairs David Johnson led the inter-agency U.S. Delegation as a sign [...] | 2008-12-12 15:30:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUN |
| 08BUCHAREST112 | ROMANIA CONSIDERS ENACTING THE SAFEGUARD CLAUSE ON [...] (C) Prime Minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu has asked Minister of the Environment Attila Korodi to take preliminary steps toward enacting a provisional safeguard clause to ban planting of MON 810 Bt corn, according to local agricultural biotechnology industry representatives. They speculate tha [...] | 2008-02-11 15:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO RO |
| 08BUCHAREST997 | ROMANIA: NUCLEAR POWER SECTOR ON THE RISE [...] Nuclear power accounts for an increasing share of Romania's electricity production. The country's two operating reactors at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant currently provide 18 percent of Romania's domestic electricity production, with this number scheduled to double after two additional re [...] | 2008-12-19 16:00:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON TRGY BEXP BTIO SENV EPET KSEI RO |
| 08BUENOSAIRES1643 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, NOVEMBER 2008 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering November 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be included on the ema [...] | 2008-12-02 20:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
| 08BUENOSAIRES230 | Argentina Hosts Brazil, Bolivia Presidents on Looming [...] (SBU) A bilateral Argentine/Brazil presidential summit in Buenos Aires February 22 and a follow-on February 23 trilateral Argentine/Brazil/Bolivia presidential summit focused largely on regional energy coordination. Bolivia's President Morales acknowledged his country's near-term inability to [...] | 2008-02-26 08:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AR BR BL |
| 08BUENOSAIRES421 | (U) ARGENTINA: STRIKE'S ECONOMIC COSTS VS. ITS $$ [...] (C) Now that the Argentine farm sector,s strike measures have been lifted, at least for 30 days (Ref A),it is worth examining just why the GoA chose this particular moment to boost export taxes, and what economic costs the three-week strike have imposed on the Argentine economy. In our view, [...] | 2008-04-04 16:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EINV ETRD AR |
| 08BUENOSAIRES577 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Argentina (GOA) has responded to rising international prices by increasing efforts to divorce domestic food prices from international prices. The general policy of the government is to maintain low domestic prices and increase tax revenues by taxing agricult [...] | 2008-05-02 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
| 08CHENNAI33 | HHS SECRETARY SWINGS THROUGH SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),visited three of South India's largest cities from January 7-9, 2008. The visit provided the Secretary an opportunity to promote the importance of assuring SIPDIS product safety in an increa [...] | 2008-01-29 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON TBIO SENV AMED KSCA PHUM KCRM SOCI IN |
| 08COLOMBO850 | SRI LANKA VENTURES INTO NANOTECHNOLOGY [...] Summary: The Sri Lankan business community and the government will establish Sri Lanka's first-ever attempt at public-private partnership in research and development with the establishment of a nanotechnology research and development institute and a nanotechnology park. The venture, which aim [...] | 2008-09-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
| 08DARESSALAAM740 | ZANZIBAR TOURIST SHOOTING REVEALS ISLAND RIFTS [...] (C) Summary: After a vacationing French national was shot and critically wounded at a Zanzibar resort on September 17th, extensive follow up inquiries yielded insight into the inner workings of Zanzibar and its police. The lack of initial police response and severe deficiencies in the Zanzib [...] | 2008-10-28 09:56:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PINR SOCI TZ |
| 08DHAKA1175 | A MONTH FROM ELECTIONS, BANGLADESH'S POLITICAL [...] (S) Although Parliamentary elections are fast approaching, many Bangladeshis remain deeply uncertain about prospects for a return to democracy. The most likely scenario remains elections on or about the set date of December 18, but the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has yet to say whether i [...] | 2008-11-16 01:00:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM BG |
| 08DHAKA375 | 2007 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] (U) Per reftel, Poloff visited the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) laboratory in Dhaka on March 23 to verify the use of INL-funded equipment. 2. (U) The USG has contributed several pieces of equipment to the DNC lab. In 2000, INL provided an analytical balance, a top-loading balance a [...] | 2008-03-25 09:47:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN BG |
| 08DOHA152 | QATAR: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (S/NF) Summary: Post assesses that U.S. investments in Qatar's energy industry, coupled with the onset of regular liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to the U.S. 2008-12, constitute the main critical infrastructure and key resources, which if destroyed, disrupted or exploited might have an im [...] | 2008-02-21 09:57:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV ECON ETTC EAID EFIN EAGR ASEC |
| 08DUSHANBE219 | COMPLEX AND CHRONIC -- TAJIKISTAN'S EMERGING [...] Summary: President Rahmon instructed his top foreign policy and economic officials the week of Feb 4 to rally donors and multilateral agencies to assist Tajikistan in dealing with the increasingly evident shortfalls in energy supplies. As of February 8, the government has stopped short of i [...] | 2008-02-08 16:43:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV ENRG EFIN EAGR TI |
| 08FREETOWN414 | FREETOWN MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR JULY 2008 [...] Summary: Embassy Freetown's media outreach in July included Ambassador Perry's remarks at the 232nd anniversary of the Independence of the United States, a statement commending the people of Sierra Leone for the successful conduct of the July 5 local council elections in Sierra Leone, and a st [...] | 2008-08-25 08:17:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO SL |
| 08FREETOWN489 | Fraud Summary - Freetown [...] Freetown is a high fraud post. Despite much progress since the end of an 11-year civil war in 2001, Sierra Leone is ranked last on the UN Human Development Index. As such, socioeconomic conditions for many residents are poor and many people seek a better life elsewhere. There is a large dia [...] | 2008-10-03 09:48:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC SL |
| 08GENEVA561 | BIC-IX: BILATERAL IMPLEMENTATION COMMISSION, [...] (U) This is BIC-IX-001. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 16, 2008 Time: 3:30 - 5:20 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (C) U.S. and Russian representatives to the Moscow Treaty's Bilateral Implementation Commission (BIC) met [...] | 2008-07-21 14:42:00 | US Mission Geneva | CONFIDENTIAL | KACT PARM BIC JCIC US RS |
| 08HANOI1010 | QSCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ECON ETRD VM |
| 08HANOI1342 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BAUCUS, DEC 16-20, 2008 [...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has eased the path [...] | 2008-12-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM |
| 08HANOI306 | VIETNAM SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND [...] (U) Your visit is a good opportunity to encourage Vietnam to continue the process of opening to the world and reforming internally. Vietnam's national leadership remains eager to learn from the United States on economic and governance reform, and will be attentive to what you have to say. You [...] | 2008-03-17 02:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ETRD EINV EFIN KIPR PREL PHUM KIRF EAIR |
| 08HANOI370 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT: VIETNAM SCENESETTER, PART II OF III [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. It is for official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Secretary Leavitt, this cable supplements Ref A and highlights the overarching health-related challenges facing Vietnam. We are proud [...] | 2008-04-01 01:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KPAO KFLU KHIV VM |
| 08HANOI614 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary Kramer: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit is well timed to focus Vietnamese leaders on the importance we attach to human rights in strengthening and deepening our bilateral relationship in the year ahead. Overall, the U.S.-Vietnam re [...] | 2008-05-23 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM |
| 08HARARE899 | FOOD SECURITY SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE [...] National assessments show that maize yield from the 2008 harvest is the lowest on record; sorghum yield was only 60 percent of last year's harvest. The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) must overcome severe forex shortages and generate political will to mobilize resources to meet the county's cere [...] | 2008-10-03 11:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREL PHUM ZI |
| 08ISLAMABAD1376 | MUSHARRAF SWEARS IN 24 MINISTERS; PRIME MINISTER [...] (U) Summary. On March 29, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gillani announced his "100 Day Plan" to the National Assembly. Within his plan, he looks to assist the lagging economy, continue to fight terror, strengthen Pakistan's ties with its neighbors and the West, restore the judiciary, and [...] | 2008-03-31 12:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK PREL |
| 08ISLAMABAD3811 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 06-09, 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 11:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 08JERUSALEM364 | GAZA: LOW FUEL SUPPLIES LIMIT WATER AND POWER [...] (C) Summary: Nahal Oz fuel transfer station was open for limited shipments on February 28. Gaza fuel importers claim that gasoline and diesel fuel imports currently meet just 20 percent of Gaza's needs. Most Gazan homes receive water from the mains for just six to ten hours each week. Local [...] | 2008-02-28 13:21:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
| 08KIGALI203 | UPDATE ON GACACA GENOCIDE CASES [...] (SBU) Summary. Gacaca courts by the end of 2007 had heard over one million genocide cases, with just under seventy thousand cases remaining. New gacaca legislation will move most category one cases (the most serious suspects, just under nine thousand) from regular courts to the gacaca sys [...] | 2008-03-20 10:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
| 08KINGSTON704 | JAMAICAN ECONOMY STAGNATES AMID SHOCKS, A REVIEW OF THE [...] (SBU) Growth in the Jamaican economy, suffering from a number of shocks, has slowed to less than one percent during the first half of 2008. The downturn was most evident in the goods producing sectors, which declined by 3.5 percent. Services grew by a moderate 1.7 percent fueled by robust tou [...] | 2008-08-04 20:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAIR EINV ECON ETRD EIND SENV IADB IBRD IMF |
| 08KINSHASA438 | GOMA NOTES - PARTNER'S PLAN FOR AMANI PROGRAM MOBILITY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Concerned that a crippled transportation infrastructure will slow down implementation of the Amani Program and humanitarian assistance, Father (also French: "Abbe") Apollinaire Malu Malu convened partners from MONUC and International Facilitation on April 20 to discuss improvin [...] | 2008-05-19 05:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG BE |
| 08KUALALUMPUR591 | MALAYSIA HOSTS GROUP OF 8 ISLAMIC DEVELOPING [...] (SBU) Summary: At the Sixth D-8 Summit hosted by Malaysia July 7-8, leaders from eight developing majority-Islamic countries focused on the recent steep global rise in food and fuel prices, and pledged to increase their intra-group trade and investment. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...] | 2008-07-11 05:51:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR PREL MY IR |
| 08KYIV874 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO/TYMOSHENKO RIVALRY HITS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU's ambitious privatization plans have fallen victim to the political rivalry between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko (Refs A and B). Following the latest iteration of their drawn out privatization battle characterized by dueling decrees, court rulings [...] | 2008-05-08 08:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD EIND UP |
| 08LAGOS472 | NIGERIA: ACCUSATIONS OF GROUND CREW MALFEASANCE AT [...] (C) Summary. On November 17, Robert Bryan and Michael McTighe (strictly protect),executives with Delta and Arik Air respectively, said ground crews fueling aircraft at Lagos' Murtala Mohammed International Airport have attempted to short change them on fuel, loading less fuel onto airplanes [...] | 2008-11-21 13:15:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
| 08LAHORE289 | PUNJAB POLITICIANS FOCUSED ON U.S.-PAKISTAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: In a series of October 9 meetings, Punjab politicians told Director of the Office of Pakistan and Bangladesh (SCA/PB) Brent Hartley that the bilateral relationship remained critical for Pakistan to survive the series of crises currently underway. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PM [...] | 2008-10-21 10:28:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON PK IN |
| 08LONDON2621 | IMO: SUB-COMMITTEE ON DANGEROUS GOODS, [...] SUMMARY: The 13th session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Sub-Committee (S/C) on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) met in London from September 22-26, 2008 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Olga Pestel-Lefevre (France). The session was attended by delegations fr [...] | 2008-10-17 12:13:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EWWT PHSA SENV UK |
| 08LUSAKA666 | DRC/ZAMBIA COPPER BELT - EQUINOX'S GIANT LUMWANA [...] (U) This cable represents one of a series of DRC/Zambian copperbelt mine-specific reports emanating from a ground-breaking resource-reporting and commercial advocacy collaboration between Embassies Pretoria, Kinshasa, and Lusaka. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: North-western Zambia's Lumwana Mine is note [...] | 2008-06-20 05:43:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ELAB CG ZA SF |
| 08LUSAKA744 | ZAMBIAN COPPER BELT BLOOMS, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN [...] (U) This cable represents the fourth in a series of reports stemming from an innovative resource-reporting and commercial advocacy collaboration between Embassies Pretoria, Kinshasa, and Lusaka (reftels A and C and septel pending from Kinshasa). This cable summarizes mines visited in Zambia. [...] | 2008-07-18 06:03:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ELAB CG ZA SF |
| 08MADRID502 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADMIRAL THAD W. ALLEN, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy Madrid Country Team warmly welcomes your visit. It will provide an important opportunity to highlight the importance we place on the relationship, particularly as it concerns our strategic interests such as the fight against terrorism and transnational crime. We a [...] | 2008-05-08 16:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SMIG SNAR SP |
| 08MADRID620 | SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 8-11 VISIT TO SPAIN OF [...] (SBU) Summary: We warmly welcome your visit. We are convinced there is much Spain can do to support the AFRICOM mission, so this will be a key opportunity. The challenge will be to engage them constructively on what the U.S. is trying to accomplish with this new and innovative command. We have a st [...] | 2008-06-04 17:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF SP |
| 08MANILA1177 | PACOM COMMANDER AND AMBASSADOR CALL ON NEW ARMED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with new Chief of the Philippine Armed Forces Alexander Yano on May 14, the Ambassador emphasized that Philippine counterterrorism successes had won attention from senior U.S. policymakers, and that the USG stood ready to continue with assistance. Commander of the U.S. [...] | 2008-05-15 09:29:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
| 08MANILA1383 | PHILIPPINES: FORCED LABOR AND EXPLOITATIVE CHILD LABOR IN [...] SUMMARY: This cable provides input for the Department of Labor's request for information on forced labor and exploitative child labor in the production of goods as mandated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (ref A). Post's point of contact for child labor and fo [...] | 2008-06-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI RP |
| 08MANILA601 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (SBU) We warmly welcome your visit to the Philippines. The relationship between our two nations is deep and complex, and our partnership addressing a host of common issues has many faces. The U.S. is the Philippines' largest trading partner, the largest investor, and the largest donor of grant [...] | 2008-03-10 23:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID RP AMGT |
| 08MASERU75 | LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES SOLIDIFY DOHA POSITIONS AT MASERU [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kingdom of Lesotho's Ministry of Trade and Industry hosted a Least Developed Countries (LDC) Trade Ministers' Conference February 27-29 in Maseru. During the conference, which produced a "Maseru Declaration" on LDC positions, trade representatives from 36 developing nations [...] | 2008-03-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ECON BEXP BTIO LT |
| 08MUSCAT428 | MIGRANT WORKERS PROTEST NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES [...] (C) Summary: A recent protest by Indian construction workers over non-payment of wages ended in clashes with the employing company's security guards. The Indian Embassy in Muscat and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) helped resolve the dispute, with the company agreeing to a timetable to repay b [...] | 2008-06-10 13:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU |
| 08NAIROBI2290 | WHITHER M/V FAINA'S TANKS? [...] (S-NF) A shipment of 33 Ukrainian T-72 tanks and other ammunition and equipment aboard the M/V Faina, currently under the control of pirates off the coast of Somalia, has raised questions and controversy in Kenya about their final destination. It is a poorly kept secret that the tanks are boun [...] | 2008-10-02 15:46:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | MASS PTER PHSA KE UP SO SU |
| 08NEWDELHI189 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 14-18, 2008 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of January 14-18, 2008. VERIZON RECEIVES LONG DISTANCE LICENSES ------------------ 2. (SBU) U.S. Telecom company Verizon Business announced on January 9, 2008 that India's Ministry of Communications a [...] | 2008-01-18 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN |
| 08NEWDELHI2012 | INDIA'S UPA GOVERNMENT SURVIVES CONFIDENCE VOTE -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The two-day special session of parliament to consider the confidence motion culminated late on July 22 with a victory for the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government. The tally was 275 votes in favor of the confidence motion, 256 opposed, and 1 [...] | 2008-07-22 14:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT688 | NEIGHBORING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 10 Addis Ababa Communique and the transfer of President Abdallahi to Lemden, Charge checked with embassies of Mauritanias neighbors Algeria, Mali, Morocco and Senegal to discuss their views on the situation. As could be predicted, Algeria and Mali line up [...] | 2008-11-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AG ML MO SG MR |
| 08PRETORIA162 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 4 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Turmoil in Markets Threatens Growth - SAG Inflation Targeting Policy Questioned - Fixed-Investment Outlook Strong for 2008 - Saudi-based [...] | 2008-01-25 10:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP |
| 08PRETORIA1856 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) 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, z [...] | 2008-08-20 08:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
| 08PRETORIA1932 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 29, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 35 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Experts Believe Inflation will Peak at 13% - Land Expropriation Bill Shelved - 'South Africans Act like Americans' - Intense Lobbying Exp [...] | 2008-09-02 06:09:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08PRETORIA1972 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SEPTMEBER 5, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 36 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Executive Turnover on the Increase - Mboweni Not Quite Ready to Retire - JSE Chief Sees More Foreign Selling Ahead - Vehicle Sales Take a [...] | 2008-09-05 15:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08PRETORIA2005 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) 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, z [...] | 2008-09-10 08:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
| 08PRETORIA214 | ESKOM AND MINES: AIMING FOR THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: South Africa's electricity crisis continues unabated. Economists debated the costs of most of the country's mines being shut down for almost one week, as they started to move back into partial production on January 30-31. The government has announced a stabilization plan to ac [...] | 2008-02-01 12:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET SENV BEXP MGMT SF MZ BC |
| 08PRETORIA217 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) 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, z [...] | 2008-02-01 14:44:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
| 08PRETORIA2648 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 5, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 49 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Concern as Chinese Clothing Quotas Expire - Tax Reforms Help South Africa's Rankings in a Global Study - Factories Hit Historic Low [...] | 2008-12-05 13:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08PRETORIA2730 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) 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, z [...] | 2008-12-18 09:53:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
| 08PRETORIA425 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 9 of U.S. Embassy PretoriaQs South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Textile Sector Seeks Survival Aid - SA-EU Trade Row Puts Customs Union at Risk - U.S. Trade with Sub-Saharan Africa Increases - GDP Growt [...] | 2008-02-29 12:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP |
| 08PRETORIA520 | SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL LED BY SENATOR RICHARD [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome the visit of your delegation to South Africa. My staff and I stand ready to do everything we can to make your trip a success. You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only a few months after Jacob Zuma defeated incumbent Thabo Mbeki as leader of [...] | 2008-03-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OTRA PGOV PREL SENV SF |
| 08PRETORIA584 | SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL LED BY CONGRESSMAN BARNEY [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome the visit of your delegation to South Africa. My staff and I stand ready to do everything we can to make your trip a success. You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only a few months after Jacob Zuma defeated incumbent Thabo Mbeki as leader of [...] | 2008-03-19 14:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OTRA PGOV PREL SENV SF GH CV |
| 08PRETORIA598 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 20, 2008 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 12 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Civil Construction Boom - Increase in World Cup-Related Investments - Dubai Group Game for Investment - Cisco to Open Technical Skills Fa [...] | 2008-03-20 13:28:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08PRETORIA653 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 28, 2008 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 13 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - CPIX Soars - Employment Up 0.8% - Heineken to Open Brewery in SA - Nissan Expands Truck Production Facility - Concerns about Electricity [...] | 2008-03-31 06:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08PRETORIA758 | ESKOM/SAG IMPROVISE RATHER THAN STRATEGIZE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa continues to grapple with its short- and long-term power crunch as it approaches three months from its January 24 nadir when state power supplier Eskom cut off electricity to mines and large industrial consumers. Eskom is implementing rationing plans and imposing sc [...] | 2008-04-10 13:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV SF |
| 08PRETORIA763 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 11, 2008 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 15 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Reserve Bank Lifts Repo Rate - Surprise Surge in Factory Output - Eskom Defends Hikes as Predictions Were Off - Even State Housing Projec [...] | 2008-04-11 09:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08PRETORIA918 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 30, 2008 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 18 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Mboweni Warns on Inflation - Prices Start to Slip as Property Boom Ends - Government Infrastructure Spending Expected to Drive Grow [...] | 2008-04-30 14:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 08RANGOON353 | BURMA: THILAWA PORT RESUMES LIMITED OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Myanmar International Terminal Thilawa (MITT) resumed limited operations on May 10, shipping industry officials confirm. Small feeder ships are able to navigate the Rangoon River, and the Port Authority continues to dredge the river to accommodate larger ships. The GOB rem [...] | 2008-05-12 09:36:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ECON ETRD PGOV PREL SENV BM |
| 08RANGOON742 | BURMA: RICE EXPORTERS FEELING THE PINCH, FARMERS [...] (C) Private Burmese rice exporters, most of whom are regime cronies, continue to pressure the Burmese Government to allow rice exports so they can unload their rice stocks and earn a profit. The regime continues to resist, concerned that rising local rice prices could spark anti-government [...] | 2008-09-19 09:21:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM |
| 08RIYADH1230 | CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN SAUDI: NEXT [...] (S) SUMMARY. The enormous Saudi energy facilities located in the Kingdom's Eastern Province, which provide approximately 12 percent of global oil supply, remain highly vulnerable to external attack. Even partial disruption of these production facilities would have an immediate impact on oil s [...] | 2008-08-11 16:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
| 08RIYADH1579 | UPDATED SAUDI VIEWS ON JCCIP IMPLEMENTATION [...] (S) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with Assistant Minister of Interior Prince Mohammed bin Nayif bin 'abd al-'Aziz (MBN) to discuss the next steps in implementation of the Joint Commission for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Border Security (JCCIP). MBN reiterated the urgency posed by the [...] | 2008-10-22 08:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | ECON ENRG EPET MARR MCAP MOPS OVP PGOV PREL |
| 08SEOUL2401 | PRESS BULLETIN - December 15, 2008 [...] "Six-Party Process Reveals Its Fundamental Limitations" (JoongAng Ilbo, December 13, 2008, Page 26) 2. What the "Controversy over North Korea's Nuclear Status" Means (Chosun Ilbo, December 15, 2008, Page 35) 3. Obama's Way of Dealing with North Korea (Hankook Ilbo, December 15, 2008, Page 39 [...] | 2008-12-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SHANGHAI12 | CHINA EASTERN - SINGAPORE AIRLINES DEAL: BELLWETHER FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 8, China Eastern Airlines (CEA) shareholders rebuffed a deal that would have allowed Singapore International Airlines (SIA) to buy a strategic share of the company. The move has sparked a wave of speculation regarding the meaning for CEA and the greater airline indu [...] | 2008-01-11 11:38:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN ECPS ETRD EFIN CH |
| 08SHANGHAI239 | LIANYUNGANG - ENTREPOT FOR JIANGSU'S LESS DEVELOPED NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Consul General's June 12-13 visit to the city of Lianyungang in northern Jiangsu Province, Mayor Xu Yiping extolled the virtues of Lianyungang's strategic location, noting the city has received a large amount of attention and financial support from the Provincial and [...] | 2008-06-25 05:27:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV KIPR ELAB ETRD ENRG EWWT CH |
| 08SHANGHAI551 | THE BUMPY ROAD OF EAST CHINA LOGISTICS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 17-21 visit to Shanghai, Department of Transportation Office of International Standards Office Hazardous Materials Safety Director Duane Pfund and Assistant Director Ryan Paquet met with three U.S. logistics companies and attended the China World Logistics Confe [...] | 2008-12-16 10:28:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN PGOV ETRD EINV ENRG CH |
| 08SHANGHAI74 | ZHEJIANG POWER NEEDS MET BY BLACKOUTS IN SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Zhejiang Province's electrical grid and power supply system that was severely damaged during the recent winter storms (Refs A and B) have been largely repaired, but generation and transmission capacity is not yet fully restored. The Shanghai Electric Power Company (SEPC) has sen [...] | 2008-02-21 12:30:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PGOV CH |
| 08SHENYANG189 | PRC-DPRK: CHINA'S COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years on, PRC compliance with the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1718's luxury- goods provisions appears limited at best. Dandong and other border officials tell us privately that while they are implementing military-related provisions of UNSCR 1718, they are not en [...] | 2008-12-30 23:51:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD KN KS CH |
| 08STATE115948 | PSI: OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP MEETING IN PARIS, [...] The seventeenth Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting took place in Paris, France on September 25-26, 2008. Delegations from the 20 OEG countries participated. Information contained in this cable is provided for Posts' information and is not to be pas [...] | 2008-10-30 19:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL |
| 08STATE117478 | DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY [...] (U) Diplomatic Security Daily, November 4, 2008 2. (U) Significant Events ) Paragraphs 7-22 3. (U) Key Concerns ) Paragraphs 23-36 4. (U) Threats & Analysis ) Paragraphs 37-50 5. (U) Cyber Threats ) Paragraphs 51-58 6. (U) Suspicious Activity Incidents ) Paragraphs 59-68 7. [...] | 2008-11-04 20:42:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC |
| 08STATE128957 | NEA MSP GUIDANCE 2011 [...] The following cable provides consolidated guidance from Washington to missions for the preparation of FY 2011 Mission Strategic Plans (MSP). This cable is divided into the following sections: Regional Bureau Guidance; Bureau of Resource Management (RM),Office of Strategic and Performance Pla [...] | 2008-12-08 20:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN AMGT KICA KSEP KSPR OTRA PREL XF |
| 08STATE129010 | FY 2011 MISSION STRATEGIC PLAN (MSP) GUIDANCE FOR IO MISSIONS [...] TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY - Para 2 BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS POLICY OVERVIEW AND GUIDANCE - Paras 3-9 MSP OVERVIEW AND GUIDANCE - Paras 10-32 FUNCTIONAL BUREAU GUIDANCE --Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) - Para 33 --Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Busi [...] | 2008-12-08 22:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AFIN KSPR ABUD UN |
| 08STATE130301 | CORRECTED COPY: CONSOLIDATED FY 2011 MISSION [...] Summary: The following cable provides consolidated guidance from Washington to missions for the preparation of FY 2011 Mission Strategic Plans (MSP). This cable is divided into the following sections: Regional Bureau Guidance; Bureau of Resource Management (RM),Office of Strategic and Perform [...] | 2008-12-11 19:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN AMGT EAID KICA KSEP KSPR PREL EAP |
| 08STATE24915 | GUIDANCE FOR 11 MARCH 2008 UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] PURPOSE: This is an action request. The Department asks that USUN draw upon the following points for the United Nations Security Council briefing and consultations on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur on 11 March 2008. --We welcome the SYG's 14 February 2008 repo [...] | 2008-03-11 00:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREL PGOV UNSC SU |
| 08STATE2736 | DEMARCHE REQUESTS TO FOLLOW UP UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] PURPOSE: The Department asks posts to demarche host governments at the highest appropriate level to follow up deployment issues concerning the deployment of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) pursuant to reftel (NOTAL). Posts may draw upon the following themes in th [...] | 2008-01-10 00:33:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV UNSC SU CH |
| 08STATE30027 | KUDOS FOR JAPANESE EMBASSY AND CONSULATE REPORTING [...] (U) Congratulations again to Embassy Tokyo, ConGens Naha and Osaka and Consulate Nagoya on the consistently outstanding quality of your political and economic reporting. Your reputation for hard work and insightful reporting is well-known and widely appreciated here in Washington. The intera [...] | 2008-03-21 22:21:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN MARR PGOV PREL JA |
| 08SUVA387 | OUTCOMES OF THE 19TH SPREP AND ASSOCIATED MEETINGS, [...] (U) Summary: Important institutional and budget issues dominated this year's SPREP and related meetings. The SPREP Meeting selected Cristelle Pratt, who is the current SOPAC director, to be the director of SPREP (para. 5-7). It adopted modified recommendations from the report of the recently c [...] | 2008-10-07 04:17:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AORC PREL XV FM |
| 08TASHKENT764 | STRATEGIC TERMEZ RIVER PORT PLAYS QUIET ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 27 the Ambassador and emboffs made a rare visit to the Termez City River Port on the southern border with Afghanistan. Barges at the Soviet-era facility transfer goods from road and rail links to the upstream Afghan town of Hayraton, returning with agricultural produce. [...] | 2008-07-01 12:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON MCAP KCRM AF UZ |
| 08TBILISI1888 | GEORGIA: EU OBSERVER MISSION DISCUSSES POST [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: European Monitoring Mission Head (EUMM) Hansjoerg Haber briefed Ambassadors on October 9 that Russian forces had withdrawn to positions outsid of Georgia proper. Several controversial observation posts remain, with competing claims regarding in which territor [...] | 2008-10-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG |
| 08TBILISI199 | GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR 2008 [...] Per reftel, Embassy Tbilisi submits its Investment Climate Statement for Georgia for 2008. Introduction The dramatic change of government swept in by the 2003 peaceful "Rose Revolution" marked the start of serious political and economic reform in Georgia. Before 2003, Georgia's economic [...] | 2008-02-07 05:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV PGOV OPIC KTDB USTR GG |
| 08TELAVIV157 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2384 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S. Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported this morning that Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef held a telephone consultation with the Council of Torah Sages and nixed the partyQs entrance into [...] | 2008-10-24 10:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV545 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 11:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08THESSALONIKI54 | THESSALONIKI: "DECAPITATION" OF GREEK HEROES' BUSTS RAISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The busts of two heroes of the "Greek Macedonian Struggle" were vandalized by unknown persons on July 10 in the village of Karidia in northwest Greece. Local residents reacted angrily to the incident, which media have tried to link to the Macedonian name and minority issues. Th [...] | 2008-07-18 11:07:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI GR MK |
| 08TOKYO1124 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1248 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - INAUGURATION OF NEW [...] LEAD STORIES: All Thursday morning papers gave prominent front-page coverage to Wednesday's summit between Chinese President Hu and Prime Minister Fukuda, during which the two appeared to reach a basic accord on joint development of natural gas fields in the East China Sea. 2. "Russia Emba [...] | 2008-05-08 07:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO1296 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 00:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1519 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 02:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1628 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1895 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO19 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 07:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO250 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO26 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-06 05:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2613 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 22:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2638 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-24 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2727 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2997 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3023 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 05:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3094 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3127 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - G20 FINANCIAL SUMMIT [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Wednesday morning included the detention of former Taiwanese President Chen on graft charges, as well as yesterday's Diet testimony given by former ASDF Chief of Staff Tamogami concerning his controversial war essay. 2. "First Step toward Unity in New Era" On th [...] | 2008-11-11 02:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3143 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3341 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3532 | CONSULTATIONS WITH JAPAN ON IMPLEMENTING THE OSLO [...] (S) SUMMARY: Japan is committed to ensuring that activities of U.S. forces in Japan will not be hindered or restrained following Diet ratification of the Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM),MOFA Deputy Director General Nakajima told Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ganyard during [...] | 2008-12-30 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MOPS PARM PINR ETTC NATO JA |
| 08TOKYO520 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 08:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO543 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO559 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO648 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-11 23:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO656 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-12 05:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO7 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 04:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO783 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-21 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO823 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TORONTO73 | Canadian Truckers Squeezed By Higher Costs and Slowing [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canadian truck transportation services employ close to 400,000 people and generate over C$60 billion in revenues annually. The Canadian trucking industry is being squeezed by slowing export volumes (due to the appreciation of the Canadian dollar and the slowing of the U.S. econ [...] | 2008-03-17 16:37:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV PBTS CVIS CA |
| 08ULAANBAATAR340 | June Elections Could Jeopardize Recent Reforms of [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 08:55:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV EPET MG |
| 08WELLINGTON392 | NEW ZEALAND - HOSTED PSI EXERCISE MARU [...] (U) Summary: In September 2008, the United States participated in the New Zealand-hosted Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise, MARU, in the Hauraki Gulf and the port of Auckland, New Zealand. MARU was the thirty-sixth PSI exercise since the inception of the initiative in 2003. T [...] | 2008-11-19 04:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PTER NZ |
| 08ZAGREB385 | ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - MAY 14, 2008 [...] (U) CROATIA HOSTS ADRIATIC SHIELD 08: Croatia hosted the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise ADRIATIC SHIELD 08 in Rijeka 12-14 May 2008, with the active participation of the USS CARNEY. The event tested the efficiency of relevant procedures and the level of preparedness of nati [...] | 2008-05-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ICTY MARR ECON HR |
| 09ACCRA356 | GHANA: OFF TO SEE THE WIZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Dr. Kwabena Duffuor will be leading a delegation of 10 from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP) and the Bank of Ghana (BOG) to the spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington, April 25-26. The minister discuss [...] | 2009-04-17 12:56:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN OVIP GH |
| 09AMMAN1579 | Jordanian-Iraqi Technical Committee Discusses Ways to [...] (SBU) Summary: The Jordanian-Iraqi Joint Technical Committee met on June 22 to discuss efforts to advance bilateral trade and economic ties. Jordanian officials viewed the meeting as important for building upon growing bilateral trade levels, as evidenced by Iraq receiving 20 percent of Jord [...] | 2009-07-14 09:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV JO IZ |
| 09AMMAN1793 | JORDAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING FACES MULTIPLE ROADBLOCKS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's new transportation strategy for 2009-2011 aims to make the country a regional transportation hub. The approach outlines plans to improve infrastructure, ease traffic flow, and encourage private investors to participate in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) arrangements. Long [...] | 2009-08-09 11:58:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN PGOV JO |
| 09ANKARA1352 | TURKEY SQUEEZES PHARMA SECTOR TO EASE HEALTH [...] (C) Summary. Faced with a TL 1 billion deficit in its health care spending for 2009 and significant additional deficits in years to come, the GOT is scrambling for ways to close the gap. According to pharmaceutical sector representatives, a large part of the GOT strategy appears to be to lay [...] | 2009-09-14 14:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV EFIN TU |
| 09ANTANANARIVO275 | MADAGASCAR: QMM MINE BEGINS OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Rio Tinto's billion dollar ilmenite mine in southern Madagascar, QMM, began production in December 2008 and shipped its first load of ilmenite in April, despite dual Malagasy political and global financial crises. The company has made a conscientious effort to hire local workers [...] | 2009-04-15 06:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV ECON MA |
| 09ASMARA80 | IS ERITREA UNRAVELING? [...] (S) Summary: Young Eritreans are fleeing their country in droves, the economy appears to be in a death spiral, Eritrea's prisons are overflowing, and the country's unhinged dictator remains cruel and defiant. Is the country "on the brink of disaster" as posited by Eritrea's first cousins across the [...] | 2009-03-05 13:21:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON PINR ER |
| 09ASTANA1222 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR VISITS BN-350 NUCLEAR REACTOR, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 16, the Ambassador toured the Mangistau Atomic Energy Complex (MAEC),including the decommissioned BN-350 fast-breeder nuclear reactor, the sodium processing facility (SPF),and a desalinization plant. Th [...] | 2009-07-23 07:29:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EMIN ENRG EINV KNNP KZ |
| 09ASTANA1627 | KAZAKHSTAN: SCENESETTER FOR DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Astana warmly welcomes your October 5-8 visit to Kazakhstan, which comes at a particularly opportune time. With its upcoming 2010 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OS [...] | 2009-09-28 01:55:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EPET EINV KZ |
| 09ASTANA2072 | KAZAKHSTAN: OIL PRODUCTION PLANS AT THE SUPERGIANT FIELDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The DCM and Energy Officer visited Atyrau, toured the Tengiz oil field, and met with senior government officials and energy executives in November. Previous reports about the visit (ref A and B) have discussed th [...] | 2009-11-23 05:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EPET KZ |
| 09ASTANA2110 | KAZAKHSTAN: SCENESETTER FOR INL ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAVID [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Astana warmly welcomes your December 9 visit to Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has proven to be an increasingly reliable security and law enforcement partner and a steady influence in a potentially turbulent regi [...] | 2009-12-04 04:50:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS SNAR SOCI KZ |
| 09ASTANA382 | KAZAKHSTAN: MANY EXPERTS EXPECT A FURTHER DEVALUATION OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: From February 17-20, Department of Treasury Advisor Thomas Lanier held meetings in Astana and Almaty to assess the Kazakhstani government's response to the global financial crisis. There was significant discussion [...] | 2009-03-03 10:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV KZ |
| 09ASTANA675 | KAZAKHSTAN CASPIAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Kazakhstan is committed to developing alternative oil export routes, whether by pipeline, rail, or tanker, that reduce its dependence on Russia. From April 9-17, Energy Officer joined a definiti [...] | 2009-04-22 07:55:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV RS IR KZ |
| 09ATHENS1920 | Greece: 2009-2010 INCSR, Part 1 [...] (U) Greece's submission for the 2009-2010 INCSR, Part 1: Greece 2009-2010 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 for the United St [...] | 2009-10-30 16:31:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS216 | NEW GREEK FINANCE MINISTER ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) In a February 13 courtesy call, the Ambassador discussed the global financial crisis and its impact on the Greek economy with Ioannis Papathanasiou, Greece's new Minister of Economy and Finance. The new Minister summarized his recent EcoFin meetings in Brussels, the revisions to the Gre [...] | 2009-02-19 13:44:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN GR |
| 09BAGHDAD2662 | ELECTION AND INVESTMENT LAWS WEIGH HEAVILY ON PM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki focused on passage of the election law and an amendment to the investment law in an October 1 meeting with Ambassador and Deputy Commanding General (DCG) Hunzeker. The PM noted that disputes over the distribution of parliamentary seats in Kirkuk still posed a [...] | 2009-10-03 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV IZ |
| 09BAMAKO226 | SOME NEW MINISTERS AND MINISTRIES IN MALI, BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 16:47:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON EAID ETRD EINT EAGR EFIN PINR |
| 09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN146 | H1N1 CASES GROWING IN BRUNEI ALONG WITH CONCERN [...] (SBU) Brunei's confirmed H1N1 cases have now reach 18 and will likely continue to grow. The Government of Brunei (GoB) reversed course and issued stricter warnings regarding travel. Containment efforts are focused on Brunei's schools, including international schools. A seasonal flu strain conti [...] | 2009-06-26 07:58:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC TBIO PREL PINR BX |
| 09BANGKOK311 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PM ABHISIT, FM KASIT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador engaged PM Abhisit Vejajjiva during a February 3 AMCHAM dinner and FM Kasit during a February 4 office call on the Thai response to Rohingya boat people from Burma and Bangladesh. Abhisit reiterated that his government, once made aware of the issue, insisted that all T [...] | 2009-02-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF TH |
| 09BEIJING2040 | PREMIER WEN SUFFERS CRITICISM, BUT POSITION [...] (C) Rumors that Premier Wen Jiabao is under fire for a variety of alleged failings continue to circulate among China's politically active circles, but the chances of Wen being forced out before his term expires in 2013 are remote, according to a number of Embassy contacts. Wen has reportedly [...] | 2009-07-17 10:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM EFIN CH |
| 09BEIJING2342 | CHINA MONETARY POLICY UNCHANGED, BUT CREDIT FLOW [...] (C) Summary. China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Director General Han Mingzhi confirmed to the Acting DCM on August 12 that China will maintain its moderately easy monetary and proactive fiscal policies. At the same time, the CBRC must continue to serve as "watchdog" for the banking sy [...] | 2009-08-13 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV CH |
| 09BELGRADE420 | EXBS: SERBIA, ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - MARCH, [...] BROAD AREAS OF INTEREST TO ADVSORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS -- EXBS had a follow-up meeting with Border Police High Commissioner Zoran Lasica regarding the Montenegrin Maritime Surveillance System; this system is comprised of a network of radar and optical (high resolution daylight cameras [...] | 2009-05-14 16:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
| 09BELGRADE823 | SERBIA/MONTENEGRO: SOME PROGRESS, CORE DISAGREEMENTS [...] (U) This cable was drafted jointly by Embassies Podgorica and Belgrade. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Although historic, linguistic, familial, and other ties closely intertwine the peoples of Montenegro and Serbia, relations between the governments remain clouded by disagreements [...] | 2009-08-18 16:04:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MW SR |
| 09BERLIN114 | GERMANY DIVES DEEPER INTO RECESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After several years of strong growth and falling unemployment, the German economy is on the ropes. The German government has repeatedly revised its 2009 growth forecasts downward, and the Economics Ministry is now projecting that gross domestic product will shrink by 2.25 perc [...] | 2009-01-29 10:01:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB PREL GM |
| 09BERLIN1199 | MEDIA REACTION: GERMANY, IRAN, ECONOMIC, GUANTANAMO, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Germany) Outcome of Bundestag Elections 3. (Iran) New Enrichment Plant 4. (Economic) Aftermath of G-20 Summit 5. (U.S.) Closure of Guantnamo 6. (Honduras) Escalation of the Situation  [...] | 2009-09-28 13:08:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM IR ECON US HO |
| 09BISHKEK947 | GENERAL PETRAEUS REVIEWS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S. CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus held a joint meeting August 17 with Kyrgyz Minister of Foreign Affairs Sarbayev and First Deputy Minister of Defense Zhaparov, and a separate meeting with Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Aibek Moldogaziyev. In both meetings, Petraeus of [...] | 2009-08-25 03:55:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS KG |
| 09BOGOTA3670 | 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 17:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 09BOGOTA3672 | 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 17:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 09BOGOTA463 | PROTECTING COLOMBIA'S CRITICAL ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In follow up to the August 2008 Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary visit to Colombia and subsequent request by Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy Hernan Martinez, a team of DOE and U.S. Southern Command experts completed a preliminary scoping visit January 25-31, 20 [...] | 2009-02-13 21:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID PGOV PREL CO |
| 09BRASILIA1382 | BRAZIL: BLACKOUT -CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS [...] (S)SUMMARY: On November 10 at 22:13, Brazil experienced a blackout that plunged 18 of Brazil's 27 states into darkness for periods ranging from 20 minutes to 6 hours. A government commission is investigating, with a draft report and recommendations expected mid-December. GOB has recently begu [...] | 2009-12-01 10:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | ENRG ECON KSEC ECIP EINV PREL BR |
| 09BRASILIA1383 | BRAZIL: BLACKOUT -CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS [...] (S)SUMMARY: On November 10 at 22:13, Brazil experienced a blackout that plunged 18 of Brazil's 27 states into darkness for periods ranging from 20 minutes to 6 hours. A government commission is investigating, with a draft report and recommendations expected mid-December. GOB has recently begu [...] | 2009-12-01 11:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | ENRG ECON KSEC ECIP EINV PREL BR |
| 09BRASILIA400 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 118 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2009-03-31 20:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 09BUCHAREST180 | ROMANIA: INCREASINGLY GLOOMY 2009 OUTLOOK SETS [...] (C) Romania needs the stability of an IMF agreement to finance the private external debt gap, protect foreign exchange reserves, and advance structural reforms in a difficult political environment, officials told DAS Judy Garber and U.S. Treasury visitors in meetings March 10-11. Still, Roman [...] | 2009-03-19 11:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL IMF EUN RO |
| 09BUCHAREST467 | ROMANIA: HEU FREE ZONE [...] (U) Summary: All remaining highly enriched uranium (HEU) was safely removed from Romania following the successful conclusion of a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) operation under the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) on June 29th. This shipment removed Russian-origin H [...] | 2009-07-06 13:20:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PARM ECON PGOV KGIC RO |
| 09BUCHAREST801 | ROMANIA: ROMGAZ TRIES TO ADAPT TO CHANGING ENERGY MARKET [...] (SBU) One of the top two gas producers in Romania, state-owned Romgaz, echoed in a November 20 meeting the previous public statements by OMV/Petrom and other private players on the domestic market that the regulated price of domestic gas suppresses production in Romania. Until now Romgaz has [...] | 2009-12-03 12:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV RO |
| 09BUDAPEST388 | WHAT THE EP ELECTIONS MEAN FOR HUNGARY [...] (SBU) Summary. Landslide opposition victory is forecasted for Hungary's June 7 European Parliamentary (EP) elections when voters will elect 22 representatives to go to Brussels. As expected, domestic issues dominate party campaigns. With the MSzP expected to suffer a major defeat, opposition [...] | 2009-05-28 14:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EU HU |
| 09BUENOSAIRES1192 | MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF OCTOBER 26-30; 11/03/09; BUENOS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories last week were mostly related to: the Honduran deal whereby ousted President Manuel Zelaya could be restored to power; the UN General Assembly condemnation of the US embargo on Cuba, which was hailed by Argentine authorities, and Venezuelan Hug [...] | 2009-11-03 17:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
| 09CAIRO107 | NORTH SINAI REACTION TO GAZA CONFLICT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a trip to the North Sinai Governorate on January 19-20, we met with local leaders and discussed the recent fighting in Gaza, and its effect on the neighboring communities in Egypt. All the leaders, with whom we met, noted that the local population--which is a mixture of [...] | 2009-01-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAL PREF EAID PHUM KISL ECON IS EG |
| 09CAIRO2237 | EGYPT 2010 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] (U) Per reftel, below is the text of Embassy Cairo's 2010 National Trade Estimate for Egypt, also emailed as requested to USTR in a Microsoft Word document. 2. (U) Begin text: EGYPT TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with Egypt was $3.6 billion in 2008, an increase of $690 m [...] | 2009-12-03 13:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG PGOV EG |
| 09CANBERRA511 | GFC, H1N1, AND OPEN SKIES, OH MY! A LOOK AT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Australian civil aviation industry has not escaped the economic slowdown brought on by the intensified global financial crisis. Qantas remains the heavyweight in the Australian aviation arena, but its share of the domestic market is slipping and is now down to around 60%. [...] | 2009-06-01 06:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON AS |
| 09CARACAS1001 | VENEZUELA'S ALUMINUM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GBRV has agreed to a number of labor demands after days of protests shut down the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz. After years of GBRV mismanagement, state-owned aluminum companies suffer from deep structural inefficiencies. Low aluminum prices and rising production costs [...] | 2009-07-31 16:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
| 09CHENNAI306 | India Biannual Fraud Update [...] India-wide consular operations are among the busiest in the world. In FY-2008, Mission India processed more than 756,000 non-immigrant visa applications and 27,000 immigrant visa applications. While the majority of applicants from India are bona fide travelers and migrants, the volume of frau [...] | 2009-10-13 01:10:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IN |
| 09CHIANGMAI32 | REDS SPOIL TWO RALLIES, CANCEL ONE OF THEIR OWN [...] (SBU) The last two weeks of February saw a flurry of activity by pro-Thaksin "redshirt" groups in two northern provinces. The leading Rak Chiang Mai 51 (RCM51) group disrupted the rallies of two apolitical groups (corn farmers and gay activists),and redshirts cancelled a rally due to infigh [...] | 2009-03-05 06:43:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS TH |
| 09COLOMBO180 | Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 16 [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes began his visit to Sri Lanka, which will likely bring renewed international attention to the Sri Lankan conflict. Ambassador stressed to Holmes and Foreign Minister Bogollagama that Sri Lankan forces would likely con [...] | 2009-02-19 13:53:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE |
| 09DHAKA174 | BANGLADESH, INDIA TALK SECURITY AND TRADE BUT [...] (C) Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's one-day visit to Bangladesh on 2/9 generated neighborly goodwill but not much progress in the two key areas of cross-border security and trade. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's proposed regional security task force was discussed but details [...] | 2009-02-18 10:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ETRD EWWT IN BG |
| 09DHAKA301 | BANGLADESH INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] This is Embassy Dhaka's submission for reftel tasking. 2. Begin text of the 2009 Bangladesh Investment Climate Statement: Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Bangladesh actively seeks foreign investment under its industrial policy and export-oriented, private [...] | 2009-03-29 09:26:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR BG |
| 09DOHA214 | QATAR: 2009 CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Qatar shares with Iran the largest non-associated gas field in the world. Qatar's portion contains an estimated 900 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, giving it the third-largest reserves of natural gas in the world. Qatar is believed to have an agreement with Iran providing a set extract [...] | 2009-03-26 13:41:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETTC KCIP PGOV PREL PTER QA |
| 09DUBAI354 | DUBAI SEEKS BOTTOM FOR ITS REAL ESTATE MARKET THROUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dubai Holding, the Dubai Inc. entity representing the personal property holdings of Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum (MbR),plans to consolidate several of its largest property developers into one mega-sized integrated unit. Although news of the consolidation was [...] | 2009-08-30 07:31:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KIPR EFIN ECON PREL AE |
| 09FREETOWN127 | Fraud Summary - Freetown [...] Freetown is a high fraud post. Despite much progress since the end of an 11-year civil war in 2001, Sierra Leone is ranked last on the UN Human Development Index. As such, socioeconomic conditions for many residents are poor and many people seek a better life elsewhere. There is a large dia [...] | 2009-04-03 08:41:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS CPAS ASEC KFRD SL |
| 09FREETOWN462 | SIERRA LEONE NARCOTICS WRAP-UP, 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Sierra Leone continues to stay invested in the narcotics issue, and attempting to become more pro-active operationally despite resource constraints. International actors, including post, UK/SOCA, and the UN remain sources of support and encouragement, while also advancing our own [...] | 2009-11-30 19:05:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SNAR PGOV PREL SL |
| 09GENEVA843 | START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA (SFO-GVA-V): [...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-V-036. 2. (U) Meeting Date: October 1, 2009 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 1:15 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) U.S. and Russian delegations met at the Russian Mission to conclude the fifth session of ST [...] | 2009-10-07 12:49:00 | Mission Geneva | SECRET | KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START |
| 09GUATEMALA776 | SENIOR POLICE FIRED FOR STEALING COCAINE, [...] (S) On August 7 President Colom ordered the firing of four senior police officers after they were implicated in a partially successful police heist of more than 1000 kilograms of cocaine. The Attorney General's Office is now investigating at least 23 police officers. The Attorney General vis [...] | 2009-08-12 23:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | SECRET | SNAR KCRM PINR ASEC GT |
| 09HANOI639 | THE CASE FOR INCREASED EPA ENGAGEMENT IN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary: Over the past several years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) experts have provided critical assistance to U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on Agent Orange/dioxin legacy issues and to the development of Vietnamese capacity to manage growing industrial pollution. Increased EPA [...] | 2009-07-09 10:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO ECON SOCI VM |
| 09HARARE967 | ZIMBABWE, LITERALLY IN THE DARK [...] (U) SUMMARY: Zimbabwe produces about half the electricity it needs, resulting in persistent blackouts that constrain industrial output and economic recovery. Zimbabwe's Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) struggles to operate and maintain a decrepit national grid, which due to a chronic lack [...] | 2009-12-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINT CASC PGOV ZI |
| 09ISLAMABAD1014 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 12, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-12 10:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD1213 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 11:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD1274 | PAKISTAN ECONOMIC REPORT, MAY 7 - MAY 20 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD1386 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF [...] (C) The government continued low-intensity fighting during the first full week in June with pockets of militants in Swat, Buner, Shangla, and Lower Dir. The latter showed that they pose a continued threat by destroying schools in Lower Dir and Buner, and resuming kidnappings of civilians in [...] | 2009-06-24 09:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
| 09ISLAMABAD1435 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD1521 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD1817 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 29 JULY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 13:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD1905 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 12 AUGUST 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2290 | ASSESSMENT OF PRESIDENT ZARDARI'S FIRST YEAR IN [...] (C) Summary: When Asif Ali Zardari took oath as Pakistan's President on September 9, 2008, he inherited a series of intersecting political, economic, and security crises for which the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led coalition government appeared ill-equipped. One year later, Zardari appears [...] | 2009-09-21 13:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL ECON EAID ENRG MOPS PK IN AF |
| 09ISLAMABAD2379 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-02 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2424 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 10:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2539 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 7 OCTOBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-20 12:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2585 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 11:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2625 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 09:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2677 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, HILLARY CLINTON'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2692 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY STATE'S VISIT, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-06 09:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2739 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, U.S. CONGRESSIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-13 11:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2847 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 18 NOVEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD2987 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD3015 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 09:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD3027 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 11:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD3084 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-24 07:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD3131 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 31, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 10:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD781 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES, 09 APRIL 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD832 | SPENDING STRATEGICALLY IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. This cable conveys a shorter version of the strategy we laid out in the Mission Strategic Plan and how we will implement the President's strategic review. We welcome the additional resources but we are very mindful of the constraints: our own, the GoP's and the international don [...] | 2009-04-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD885 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 22 APRIL 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 11:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 09ISLAMABAD980 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-08 09:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 09ISTANBUL429 | SISLI MAYOR SARIGUL BROADENING ELECTORAL BASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mustafa Sarigul, mayor of Istanbul's Sisli District, remains on track to launch his political party, the Turkey Change Movement (Turkiye Degisim Hareketi, or TDH),in January 2010 and will make a bid to oust Prime Minister Erdogan in the 2011 election. In separate, recent meetings [...] | 2009-11-19 11:39:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 09JERUSALEM2095 | PA BUDGET: UAE SUPPORT ARRIVES; EUROS PLAN FOR 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has confirmed receipt of a significant contribution of budget support from the UAE totaling nearly USD 150 million, that will allow the PA to make its payroll early this month, prior to the Eid al-Adha holiday. Based on numbers the PA has provide [...] | 2009-11-20 14:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN EUN KWBG AE |
| 09KABUL2325 | PRISONS IN LAGHMAN PROVINCE FUNCTIONING RELATIVELY [...] (C) A recent visit to Laghman prison demonstrated that penal reform in this province is moving in the right direction, although detention centers continue to suffer from a lack of resources. On August 3, a Rule of Law team from Task Force Mountain Warrior (TFMW) toured the Laghman provincial [...] | 2009-08-11 14:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM AF |
| 09KABUL2430 | Afghan Elections Situation Report Two - 1200 Local, August [...] (SBU) PRT and local media reporting suggest Afghan voters and officials are hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. Many voters may wait to see if violence erupts early in the day before deciding whether to go to the polls. Yet, PRTs report optimism in unexpected places-Kunar, for e [...] | 2009-08-19 19:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AF |
| 09KABUL2431 | Afghan Elections Situation Report Two - 1200 Local, August [...] (SBU) PRT and local media reporting suggest Afghan voters and officials are hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. Many voters may wait to see if violence erupts early in the day before deciding whether to go to the polls. Yet, PRTs report optimism in unexpected places-Kunar, for e [...] | 2009-08-19 19:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AF |
| 09KATHMANDU158 | SEVERE POWER CRISIS IN NEPAL LIKELY TO BE LONG LASTING [...] (U) Dry winter weather has triggered extreme outages in hydropower-dependent Nepal, and a top official in the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) recently warned that the current 14-hour daily power cuts are likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The country?s large energy deficit ? peak [...] | 2009-02-27 09:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECIN ECON EINV PGOV SENV AMGT ABLD ABUD AFIN |
| 09KATHMANDU739 | NEPAL: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy Kathmandu for the month of July 2009, including the following: -- FY 2009/10 Budget Nearly 34 Percent Larger -- Economic Survey Shows Declining Performance -- UN Says Hunger in Some Areas 'Extremely Alarming' -- Growth in Overs [...] | 2009-08-10 04:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV NP |
| 09KHARTOUM264 | SPLM LEADERSHIP IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS IN FLUX [...] (SBU) Summary. In a decisive and long-overdue move, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Council of Southern Kordofan voted to oust Deputy Governor Daniel Kodi from his position of SPLM State Chairman. The vote of no-confidence in Kodi as the SPLM's lead-man in the Nuba Mountains is [...] | 2009-02-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
| 09KHARTOUM85 | UNAMID DISCUSSES CEASEFIRE PLANS AND SOUTH DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22, Rodolphe Adada, the Joint Special Representative (JSR) of the United Nations and African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID,) told CDA Fernandez that UNAMID continues to draft its ceasefire plans. Adada stated that UNAMID's plan will be flexible and applicable in bot [...] | 2009-01-23 09:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 09KINGSTON462 | JAMAICA: Mid-year report card for the 2010 Major's List [...] (U) The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) continues to make progress in combating the significant flow of illicit drugs, fighting public corruption, and assisting in the extradition of wanted fugitives from U.S. Justice. Although the GOJ expresses a desire to combat criminal activities and continues [...] | 2009-06-10 19:34:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR ASEC ELAB PGOV ECON JM XL |
| 09KINSHASA977 | DRL OFFICER?S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS GRAVITY OF CHILD [...] (U) Summary: During an October 12-19 visit to the DRC, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Tu Dang met with a wide range of stakeholders, including government officials, NGOs, labor unions and other civil society organizations to discuss labor and corporate social responsibility issues. She also to [...] | 2009-10-29 11:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI CG |
| 09LAGOS438 | FUNDAMENTALS OF ILLEGAL OIL BUNKERING IN NIGERIA [...] (C) Oil theft, widely referred to as "illegal bunkering" in Nigeria, represents a significant economic activity with serious ramifications for Nigeria's economy, security, democracy and environment. The widespread association of illegal bunkering with militant activity obscures some of the m [...] | 2009-11-18 08:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI NI |
| 09LONDON435 | AFRICA: HMG'S PRIORITIES TO DISCUSS WITH THE OBAMA [...] (C/NF) Summary. UK officials have highlighted Prime Minister Gordon Brown's priorities in Africa and previewed the core messages which the Prime Minister plans to bring to discussions with U.S. officials. Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remain HMG's top p [...] | 2009-02-19 13:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID UNSC KPKO PHUM ECON XA SO SU ZI |
| 09MANILA1663 | EMOTIONAL FAREWELL TO PRESIDENT CORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 5 funeral of former President Corazon Aquino brought the Philippine nation together in an outpouring of affection and respect, a moment unprecedented in recent memory. Much as Cory Aquino united Filipinos during the 1986 uprising against dictator Ferdinand Marcos, sh [...] | 2009-08-06 11:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR RP |
| 09MANILA2271 | MANILA ENDORSEMENT FOR FY10 1206 PROPOSAL FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of Embassies Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Suva (for Tonga),Phnom Penh, Dhaka and Colombo (for Maldives) met with U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) representatives in Bangkok in August 2009 to finalize FY2010 regional 1206 proposals approved by PACOM with a [...] | 2009-10-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KTIA MARR MASS MOPS MCAP BG CB CE |
| 09MEXICO1322 | AIR TRANSPORT: FLU SPARES PASSENGERS, HITS FINANCES [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables reporting on the economic impact of the influenza outbreak in Mexico. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The transportation system in Mexico has withstood the H1N1 assault at its current intensity rather well. While fear of the influenza has subsided, the economi [...] | 2009-05-13 20:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KFLU MX |
| 09MEXICO3418 | Mexico Economic Weekly - December 4 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-12-04 20:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
| 09MONTEVIDEO388 | Uruguay: Macroeconomic Roundup [...] Uruguay's economy grew 2.3 percent in QI/09 over QI/2008. Despite the year-over-year increase, the economy is now shrinking, and seasonally-adjusted GDP dropped 2.9 percent in QI/2009 from QIV/08. Analysts expect GDP to continue falling in the second quarter and zero to slightly negative grow [...] | 2009-07-02 13:18:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN UY |
| 09MOSCOW1612 | DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary of Energy Poneman and Ambassador Beyrle met with Russian Federation Minister of Education and Science (MES) Andrey Fursenko on June 10, 2009, in Moscow to discuss future DOE-MES cooperation in energy efficiency, carbon capture and sequestration, and nanotech [...] | 2009-06-19 06:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP PREL PTER SENV TSPL TNGD KGHG EAID |
| 09MOSCOW939 | THREE MORE PORK FACILITIES DELISTED, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 10, 2009, the Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that three more U.S. pork facilities were delisted due to suspected fraud. The letter explains that VPSS officials inspected a ship on its way to Japan th [...] | 2009-04-13 13:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS |
| 09MUSCAT273 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN JOINT MILITARY COMMISSION [...] (C) Security and military cooperation between the U.S. and Oman, as well as the overall bilateral relationship, remains strong. Oman's strategic location makes it a highly valued partner for the support of U.S. military operations across a wide area. While sharing U.S. concerns on Iran's nucl [...] | 2009-04-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL PTER MASS MOPS MU |
| 09MUSCAT759 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL MULLEN'S VISIT TO OMAN (JULY 18) [...] (C) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes you to Oman for your visit. You have a brief meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF),H.E. Lt. Gen. (Fareeq in Arabic) Ahmed bin Harith al Nabhani, which is primarily a courtesy call. Nabhani is unlikely to broach significant iss [...] | 2009-07-14 10:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MASS MOPS IR PK AF MU |
| 09NASSAU139 | SEIZURES UP, MIGRANT SMUGGLING DISCUSSED AT U.S.-BAHAMAS [...] (SBU) This is a cable with action issue items. Southern Command/Northern Command/Coast Guard please see paragraph 15 on piracy. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and Minister for National Security Tommy Turnquest co-chaired the semi-annual Joint Counter Narcotics/Illegal Migration [...] | 2009-03-06 17:01:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL TK BF |
| 09NEWDELHI933 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: BATTLEFIELD BULANDSHAHR -- TAKE [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the third in a series of cables on Bulandshahr, a rural market town of 175,000 two hours southeast of Delhi in the state of Uttar Pradesh. On May 5th, two days before its parliamentary district went to the polls, PolOff and PolFSN ventured back to Bulandshahr to see how [...] | 2009-05-08 10:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN |
| 09PANAMA625 | THE GANG THREAT ON PANAMA'S COSTA RICAN BORDER [...] (S//NF) The border between Panama and Costa Rica has been described as a "no mans' land", where drugs flow across into Costa Rica and guns and money flow back into Panama. With parallel roads along either side of the border, over 200 possible crossing points, a free trade zone town sitting on [...] | 2009-08-17 19:09:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA829 | PLANS TO ESTABLISH FOUR MARITIME OPERATIONS CENTERS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Government and Justice Jose Raul Mulino announced in late October that the GOP intended to establish four maritime operating centers to interdict narcotics and other illegal items transiting Panamanian waters. The operation centers would be jointly manned by security f [...] | 2009-11-09 23:28:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS PINR ASEC SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA894 | Scenesetter for CODEL Boehner [...] (SBU) Since the restoration of democracy after Operation Just Cause twenty years ago, Panama has established and consolidated a democratic, stable government, achieving a new confidence, dynamism, and psychological sovereignty that complements the 1999 completion of its territorial sovereignty. [...] | 2009-12-03 14:17:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI ASEC SNAR PGOV KPAO CASC PM |
| 09PARAMARIBO356 | Suriname: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] (U) Post presents its 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. Suriname I. Summary Suriname is a transit zone for South American cocaine en route to Europe, Africa and, to a lesser extent, the United States. The Government of [...] | 2009-11-05 20:09:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NS |
| 09PESHAWAR120 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 22 - [...] (C) Pakistan's security forces continued to capture key locations in Swat during the fourth week of May. However, continuing last week's trend, the Taliban struck back by targeting security forces and civilians in four mass-casualty bombing attacks in Peshawar and one in Dera Ismail Khan, bes [...] | 2009-06-04 04:12:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
| 09PESHAWAR138 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 16:00:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
| 09PONTADELGADA5 | US MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE AZORES, PORTUGAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. For over 60 years the United States and Portugal have maintained a high level of military cooperation in the Azores. This close cooperation is reflected in the daily leadership and performance of the 65th Air Base Wing at Lajes Field. We continue to look for new opportunities t [...] | 2009-01-30 11:22:00 | Consulate Ponta Delgada | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR ECON SOCI CASC PO |
| 09PORTAUPRINCE731 | HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] (U) Summary: The following is a brief overview of progress made by the Haitian National Police in the past two years and a summary of various perspectives on where the HNP should go in the future. This report represents the recommendations and analysis of the first full-time NAS Director, at [...] | 2009-08-13 17:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PGOV PREL KCRM HA |
| 09PRAGUE123 | CZECH REPUBLIC REQUESTS A SCIENCE FELLOW FOR AGENTFLY [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Prague requests a Science Fellow who would work with the Czech Technical University to adapt AGENTFLY military project for civilian air traffic control use. Current points of contact for this proposal are ODC/Maj. Matthew Kime, KimeMJ@state.gov, 420-257-022-350 [...] | 2009-03-05 14:00:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL ECON AMGT EZ |
| 09PRETORIA1017 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) 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, z [...] | 2009-05-20 08:29:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
| 09PRETORIA1046 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MAY 22, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 21 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Moody's Upbeat on South Africa's Growth after 'Brief' Recession - Strong Vote of Confidence as Largest South African Bond is Snapped [...] | 2009-05-22 11:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
| 09PRETORIA1145 | FREE STATE STRUGGLES WITH GOLD GEOLOGY AND ILLEGAL MINERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Gold-mining in the Free State Province is emblematic of broad challenges in profitably mining gold in South Africa. Controlling costs, managing labor, assuring safety and power, and exploiting remaining low-grade deposits are difficulties that have caused South Africa's product [...] | 2009-06-08 10:31:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ELAB ENRG KHIV SF |
| 09PRETORIA1615 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) 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, z [...] | 2009-08-07 14:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
| 09PRETORIA2166 | Electricity - Economy's Driver or Achilles Heel? [...] (SBU) South African power utility Eskom is struggling belatedly to increase capacity to meet demand, while working to engage the private sector, secure financing, and correct its pricing to reflect market realities. The utility suffered an electricity supply emergency, resulting in rolling bl [...] | 2009-10-23 14:22:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD ECON SENV SF |
| 09PRISTINA578 | KOSOVO: ELECTRICITY IN THE NORTH-ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) employees were only partially successful in conducting a December 24 visit to read meters at three substations in the northern part of Kosovo. The limited success of these visits was marred, however, by the Serbian state electrical conglomerate EP [...] | 2009-12-29 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
| 09RABAT237 | THE OTHER MOROCCO PART 2, ECONOMICS: MISERY IN THE [...] (C) In February, Berbers in the snow-bound region of the Middle Atlas Mountains felt disconnected from Morocco's broader economic boom. They expressed anger at the urban-centered influence networks that they said treated their villages and raw materials like chattel, preventing communities f [...] | 2009-03-26 15:47:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM ECON MO |
| 09SANTODOMINGO1321 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF WHA P/DAS CRAIG KELLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Santo Domingo warmly welcomes you to the Dominican Republic. Your visit will reinforce our strong bilateral relationship that is based on extensive economic and commercial ties, military and law enforcement cooperation, and cultural links. President Leonel Fernandez has [...] | 2009-12-08 18:48:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR EAID DR |
| 09SARAJEVO40 | BOSNIA - GAZA REACTION REVEALS UGLY SIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: Several incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti, biased press coverage, and irresponsible comments by Islamic Community head, Reis Mustafa Ceric (who labeled events in Gaza "genocide"),have contributed to an undercurrent of anti-Semitism in the Bosnian reaction to events in Gaza. [...] | 2009-01-12 16:36:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM GZ BK PREL |
| 09SEOUL1306 | PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE WORKSHOP IN [...] (U) This cable is sensitive, but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This is cable is an action request. See para 19. 3. (U) Summary. The Government of the Republic of Korea (ROKG) on July 21-22 hosted a USG delegation at a workshop in Seoul to discuss the Prolifera [...] | 2009-08-14 06:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KS IR |
| 09SEOUL156 | PRESS BULLETIN - February 2, 2009 [...] The North's Provocations (JoongAng Ilbo, January 31, 2009, Page 26) 2. Inter-Korean Relations Cannot Be Resolved with a Strategy of Waiting (Hankyoreh Shinmun, January 31, 2009, Page 23) 3. N. Korea Must Stop Its Pointless Threats (Chosun Ilbo, January 31, 2009, Page 27) 4. It Would be Di [...] | 2009-02-02 08:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 09SEOUL175 | PRESS BULLETIN - February 4, 2009 [...] Will North Korea Again Test-fire Missiles? (Hankook Ilbo, February 4, 2009, Page 39) 2. Seoul, Washington Must Stand Shoulder to Shoulder (Chosun Ilbo, February 4, 2009, Page 27) Features 3. Lee, Obama Pledge Cooperation on N. Korea (Chosun Ilbo, February 4, 2009, Front Page) 4. Is [...] | 2009-02-04 08:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 09SEOUL1818 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; November 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 06:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL1946 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; December 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 23:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL1964 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; December 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 02:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL410 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; March 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 07:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL560 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 6, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 07:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL568 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 8, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 07:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL615 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 23:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL68 | PRESS BULLETIN - January 14, 2009 [...] Why Is U.S. Attacking ROK Cars Only? (JoongAng Ilbo, January 14, 2009, Page 30) Features 2. U.S. Replaces Apache Helicopters Not with A-10 Aircrafts But with F-16 Fighter Jets, Leaving a Possible Military Vacuum (Dong-a Ilbo, January 14, 2009, Page 10) 3. North Korea's Double-faced St [...] | 2009-01-14 08:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 09SEOUL826 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; May 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 07:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SHANGHAI111 | ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN PUTS THE BRAKES ON SHIPPING TRAFFIC IN THE [...] (U) Summary: Previous unrestrained growth in the Yangtze River Delta has left the shipping industry making unprecedented decisions to cut costs, shift assets, and survive during the economic downturn. Shipping companies have dramatically cut rates and some are operating at below cost, further [...] | 2009-03-09 10:15:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EIND ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV CH |
| 09SHANGHAI120 | (SBU) SHANGHAI UNSURE OF NEXT STEPS IN THE WAKE OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Foreign banks have largely been able to regain access to the renminbi interbank market after Chinese banks pulled credit lines this past fall in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse, Shanghai interlocutors told a Treasury delegation on February 19-20. The financial sector [...] | 2009-03-13 10:53:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ECON EFIN PGOV PREL |
| 09SHANGHAI122 | SHANGHAI AUTHORITIES ON TRANSPORTATION SECURITY, IPR AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During a February 15-18 visit to Shanghai, a delegation of 11 U.S. Senate Finance Committee staff members and 4 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials engaged representatives from Shanghai Customs, Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (CIQ),China Shi [...] | 2009-03-17 07:58:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CH CVIS ELTN ETRD EWWT KIPR PREL |
| 09SHANGHAI96 | ANHUI'S AUTO INDUSTRY HURT BY ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, BENEFITS [...] (SBU) Summary: After years of double-digit growth, Chery Automobile Company and Jianghuai Automobile Company (JAC),two large Chinese auto manufacturers headquartered in Anhui Province, saw sales slump in 2008 due to the economic downturn, with exports hit particularly hard. Recent government [...] | 2009-02-27 01:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV ELAB EIND PGOV CH |
| 09STATE94672 | START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATI0NS, GENEVA [...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-IV-004. 2. (U) Meeting Date: September 1, 2009 Event: U.S.-hosted Reception Time: 7:30 to 9:00 P.M. Place: 41 Quai Wilson, Geneva (U) Meeting Date: September 2, 2009 Event: Initial Meetings of WG [...] | 2009-09-11 17:18:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | KACT PARM MARR PREL RS US START |
| 09TALLINN335 | Estonia: Opposition Dominates Local Elections [...] (U) SUMMARY. The October 18th local elections for 226 town councils throughout Estonia resulted in few surprises, other than a robust turnout of 60.57 percent, considerably higher than the 47.4 percent participating in the last local elections in 2005. The Center Party won a clear majority i [...] | 2009-11-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EN |
| 09TASHKENT1577 | UZBEK RAIL: RED HOT WHEELS TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Railroad engineer Michael Klaus (protect) told us that Uzbekistan Railroads is having difficulty operating freight trains on its new Karshi-Termez line. Obsolete locomotives with inadequate brakes result in multiple delays and wheels that glow red hot by the time a train has comp [...] | 2009-11-12 04:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ECIN ELTN PREL AF UZ |
| 09TASHKENT227 | UZBEKISTAN: MEDIA REACTION TO GENERAL PETRAEUS'S VISIT [...] (U) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus's February 16-17 visit to Tashkent received broad media coverage in the local, state-run press, the international media and wire services, and on GOU-controlled and independent news websites. There was much speculation that his trip was link [...] | 2009-02-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ |
| 09TBILISI169 | GEORGIA: THE ECONOMY IS SAAKASHVILI'S TOP PRIORITY [...] (C) Summary. Although in better financial shape than some of its neighbors, Georgia is starting to suffer from the overall international economic malaise. Georgia's banking sector remains sound due to high liquidity and conservative lending policies, but experts worry that a likely devaluat [...] | 2009-01-30 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL GG |
| 09TBILISI365 | GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] Per reftel, Embassy Tbilisi submits its Investment Climate Statement for Georgia for 2009. Introduction Since 2004 when the Saakashvili Government came to power, the Georgian Government has undertaken an ambitious program to modernize and liberalize its economy. Institutional reforms in [...] | 2009-02-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV GG |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1285 | TFHO1: CHEVRON SENDS MIXED MESSAGES ON LEAVING [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Ambassador and economic officers, Chevron representatives expressed concern about continuing financial losses tied to the GOH's application of an unfavorable formula for the pricing of finished oil products. The Chevron representatives said that the compa [...] | 2009-12-14 20:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG EPET ETRD HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA181 | Scenesetter for Assistant Secretary Shannon's Visit to [...] (SBU) Summary: We warmly welcome you to Tegucigalpa. Your visit provides an excellent opportunity to hold substantive discussions with President Zelaya, senior GOH officials, as well as with the two leading presidential candidates. The political situation continues to be stable as we move for [...] | 2009-03-17 01:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI OVIP HO |
| 09TELAVIV2275 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-16 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 09TELAVIV2294 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations: ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted GOI officials as saying yesterday that the Moscow conference on the Middle East may be in jeopardy as a result of Russia's support for the U.N. H [...] | 2009-10-19 10:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 09TELAVIV459 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israeli Politics 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted top advisers to PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu as saying yesterday that he is expected to lobby Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next week against U [...] | 2009-02-26 13:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 09TELAVIV966 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz cited the concern of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's aides that President Obama will "surprise" the Prime Minister with unanticipated ideas and demands at the [...] | 2009-05-01 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 09THEHAGUE193 | NETHERLANDS: COMPANIES SUFFER FROM ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, [...] SUMMARY: The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Analysis (CPB) released its updated forecast March 17 for a Dutch economy in "deep recession." GDP is predicted to decline 3.5 percent in 2009. Businesses across a number of sectors report they are facing decreasing revenue, fewer orders, and lower [...] | 2009-03-20 13:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
| 09TOKYO1133 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/19/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-19 07:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1207 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/29/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 00:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1224 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/01/09 [...] Top headlines 2. Editorials 3. Prime Minister's weekend schedule (Nikkei) North Korea problem: 4. U.S. high-level delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Steinberg starts 4-nation tour of Japan, ROK, China and Russia, focusing on North Korea issues (Yomiuri) 5. Large U.S. delegat [...] | 2009-06-01 00:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1361 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/17/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 02:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1441 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/26/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 00:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/30/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 07:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1548 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/08/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-08 02:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1601 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/15/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-15 00:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1625 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/16/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-16 21:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1651 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/22/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 00:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1722 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/28/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 21:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO1832 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/11/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-11 21:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO2005 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/01/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-01 02:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO2133 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/14/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 06:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO2286 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/05/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 23:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO2643 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/16/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 23:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO351 | SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION OF THE DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-16 23:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO443 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/26/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 07:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO578 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/16/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO624 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/20/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 00:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO628 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/20/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 06:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO737 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/02/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 00:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO753 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/03/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO761 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/03/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO849 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/14/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 06:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO899 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/20/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 01:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO917 | JAPANESE AIRLINES DISCUSS CIVIL AVIATION AIR [...] (SBU) Summary: Japanese airlines report slight improvements in the international civil aviation market, particularly for leisure travel, but that the business, domestic, and freight sectors show no sign of recovery. Japan's position as a regional hub, according to Japan Airlines (JAL) and Al [...] | 2009-04-21 09:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN PGOV ETRD JA |
| 09TUNIS539 | IMF POSITIVE ON TUNISIA'S ECONOMY DESPITE THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a statement released in late June, following recent Article IV consultations, the International Monetary Fund stated that Tunisia is "well positioned" to weather the economic crisis, thanks to prudent macroeconomic policies, strong foreign direct investment (FDI),steady tou [...] | 2009-07-31 16:43:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD TS |
| 09UNVIEVIENNA282 | IAEA/IRAN: SAFEGUARDS TECHNICAL BRIEFING STRESSES [...] (SBU) On June 10, Ops B Director Herman Nackaerts provided Member States a technical briefing on the Director General's (DG) June 5 report on Iran. The briefing largely repeated the points covered in the report, but also offered more details on safeguards implementation at the Natanz cent [...] | 2009-06-18 06:27:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KNNP AORC IAEA IR |
| 09UNVIEVIENNA47 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANK ASSURANCES: THORNY ISSUE IN [...] (C) Summary: The President and Secretary have publicly endorsed the establishment of an international nuclear fuel bank under the auspices of the IAEA, and advancing that goal is one of UNVIE's top priorities. A fuel bank would give the Agency the means in "last resort" circumstances to effe [...] | 2009-02-03 16:29:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY KNNP |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1108 | ICTR/ICTY JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS BRIEF SECURITY [...] Summary: The Security Council met December 3 for its biannual briefing on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The President and Prosecutor of each tribunal made statements, as did all Council members a [...] | 2009-12-09 14:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PREL UNSC |
| 09VIENNA225 | Austrian Airlines Financial Situation Grim; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Austrian Airlines (AUA) is in increasingly dire financial straits despite bridge loans from the GoA. On February 19, new management announced a 2008 operating loss of EUR 100-125 million which would wipe out half of AUA's remaining capital base. Including financial items (wri [...] | 2009-02-26 15:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EUN AU |
| 09VILNIUS505 | BUDGET CUTS AFFECT THE GOL IN A VARIETY OF WAYS [...] (C) The GOL has cut planned public expenditures three times in the last year and will make cuts to social benefits as well in the coming months. These cuts, combined with the GOL's anti-crisis action plan and decisions by both the President's office and the parliament to limit their respecti [...] | 2009-09-30 09:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON LH |
| 09WELLINGTON108 | UPDATE ON NEW ZEALND'S MONETARY AND FISCAL POSITION AS THE [...] (U) Summary. On April 30, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) reduced the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 50 basis points to 2.5 percent. The RBNZ move continues a series of dramatic cuts since July 2008 when the OCR stood at 8.25 percent. Economists reacted favorably to both the size of the [...] | 2009-05-01 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
| 09ZAGREB276 | LOCAL ELECTIONS HIGHLIGHT STRENGTHS OF BIG PARTIES [...] (U) SUMMARY: High turnout marked Sundays, local elections and the results contrasted the differing strengths between the two largest parties. The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) along with coalition partners won the largest number of county prefects and should hold sway in nearly fift [...] | 2009-05-18 13:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV HR |
| 09ZAGREB635 | WAR CRIMES AMBASSADOR RAPP DISCUSSES ICTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Stephen Rapp met separately with top Croatian justice officials and EU ambassadors to discuss Croatia's latest investigation into the missing Gotovina documents (reftel) and related efforts to unblock the Judiciary Chapter in the EU accession process. He noted t [...] | 2009-10-23 08:39:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KAWC HR |
| 10ABUJA69 | SCENE-SETTER FOR FEBRUARY 6 TO 11 VISIT BY ASSISTANT [...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission to Nigeria warmly welcomes the visit of Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Carson to Nigeria to visit Lagos, Abuja, and Kano February 6 to 11. Embassy provides the following political, economic, and management information. We will transmit key messages f [...] | 2010-01-21 15:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR NI |
| 10ANKARA285 | MISSION TURKEY'S S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] SUMMARY: Mission Turkey received 180 proposals for the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues Small Grants Initiative. Ankara, Adana, and Istanbul POL and PAS officers were energized by the vast number of responses from every corner of Turkey and worked together to reach out and brief [...] | 2010-02-22 09:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SGWI SOCI KPAO KWMN PREL |
| 10ANKARA298 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
| 10BANGKOK380 | THAILAND: VIEWS FROM THE RED HEARTLAND - STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent swing through central Isaan, the northeast heartland of pro-Thaksin and red-shirt sentiment, revealed an interesting set of views on the key political, economic, and social issues facing Thailand, both in the short-term, with large-scale red-shirt protests expected in B [...] | 2010-02-12 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
| 10BRATISLAVA17 | SLOVAKIA: FICO YIELDS TO ONCOMING TRUCKERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although protests by Slovak truckers against the new electronic toll system appeared to have fizzled by the end of last week, the issue regained steam over the weekend as truckers instituted partial blockades of several major roads, and it became clear that public opinion was wid [...] | 2010-01-15 14:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON ELTN LO |
| 10BRUSSELS65 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 21 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your January 21 meeting with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton will enable you to deepen the relationship you established with her during your introductory meeting at NATO in early December and in subsequent phone calls. By receivin [...] | 2010-01-20 15:54:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL MASS MARR EU |
| 10BUENOSAIRES200 | Argentina: S/GWI Project Proposals [...] Summary: A Country of Healthy Women was developed by Liga Argentina de Lucha Contra El Cancer (LALCEC) with support from Embassy Buenos Aires. Argentina has a low awareness rate of cancer risks, the importance of early detection, and treatment possibilities. Research has shown that a lar [...] | 2010-02-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY AR |
| 10BUENOSAIRES95 | Falklands/Malvinas: GoA Requires Permission for Ships to [...] (C) The GoA issued a decree on February 16 requiring ships to obtain GoA permission before sailing from Argentina or through Argentine waters to reach the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner sought to justify the decree based on UN resolutions. The decree is intende [...] | 2010-02-17 22:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PHSA PBTS EFIN PREL ENRG AR |
| 10GUANGZHOU13 | "Fe" vs. Climate Change: China's BYD Bets on Batteries in [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The answer to climate change may be as simple as the chemical formula of a lithium iron phosphate battery, according to one ambitious south China company. Referred to simply as "Fe" and already the key component of the world's first mass produced plug-in hybrid elec [...] | 2010-01-07 09:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL ETRD KIPR PGOV CH HK |
| 10GUATEMALA45 | 2009 in Review; What to Watch for in 2010 [...] (C) President Colom's tenure during 2009 was characterized by a number of successes in the social field, and growing challenges in others, especially security. Preparing for a presidential run in 2011, controversial First Lady Sandra de Colom continued to lead the government's efforts to alleviate [...] | 2010-02-17 20:51:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI PREL PINR ASEC EAID GT |
| 10HANOI218 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY OES ASSISTANT SECRETARY JONES TO [...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important signal to the Vietnamese of continued U.S. engagement on health and environmental issues. Your meetings with the Government of Vietnam (GVN),the United Nations (UN),and the European Union will allo [...] | 2010-02-24 10:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO SOCI PREL ECON KGHG KHIV VM |
| 10ISLAMABAD11 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 05, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 10ISLAMABAD178 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, JANUARY 6, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 05:02:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 10ISLAMABAD189 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, JANUARY 20, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
| 10ISLAMABAD34 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 08, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-08 10:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 10JAKARTA163 | INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR FOR DOL [...] (U) Post does not have information on additional goods for the Indonesian TVPRA list. Post does ask that lacking substantiated reports that DOL delete gold from Indonesia's TVPRA list of goods. Removing Gold ------------- 2. (U) Mission has not received any reliable reports to corrobor [...] | 2010-02-05 10:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI ID |
| 10JERUSALEM224 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S VIST TO [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary: Your meetings will give you a chance to see USG assistance efforts first hand; hear from Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on progress in implementing his state-building plan; and learn from private sector and key economic policy makers what is needed to create the conditions f [...] | 2010-02-05 22:41:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV KWBG IS |
| 10JERUSALEM329 | DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary. In a February 21 meeting with Deputy Secretary Jacob J. Lew, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stressed the importance of Israel ending Area A incursions and creating conditions for the Palestinian private sector to generate sustainable economic growth. He s [...] | 2010-02-23 16:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KWBG KPAL PINS EAID IS |
| 10KUWAIT105 | U.S. MILITARY FLIES KUWAITI TENTS TO HAITI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) on February 3, three weeks after the Minister of Health approached Ambassador for assistance in sending relief supplies to Haiti, final clearances were received permitting space-available transportation of 300 Kuwait Red Crescent [...] | 2010-02-04 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREF YM KU |
| 10PRETORIA125 | ESKOM AND THE WORLD BANK LOAN FOR MEDUPI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two years after power utility Eskom's electricity crisis, the state-owned company continues to grapple with financing expanded supply and diversifying its energy mix. The recently released Integrated Resource Plan is a brief, three-year planning document, not revelatory in term [...] | 2010-01-21 15:06:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG EPET EINV PGOV SENV SF |
| 10QUITO37 | China cautiously seeks to expand commercial interests in [...] (C) China's Ambassador to Ecuador, Cai Runguo, told Ambassador January 15 that the PRC is moving forward with negotiations with the GoE on financing various commercial projects, but that Ecuadorian President Correa's criticisms of China's tough negotiating position had caused some concern in B [...] | 2010-01-26 22:21:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN SENV ENRG EC CH |
| 10SEOUL287 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 23, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 08:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SEOUL311 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 25, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 08:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10TBILISI198 | GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR 2010 [...] Per reftel, below is Embassy TbilisiQs Investment Climate Statement for submission for 2009. Introduction Since 2004,, the Georgian Government has undertaken an ambitious program to modernize and liberalize its economy. Institutional reforms include restructuring and downsizing governmen [...] | 2010-02-17 07:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV |
| 10TELAVIV140 | IN DEPTH: DEAD SEA COSMETICS AND SKINCARE INDUSTRY FRAUD [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 05:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ASEC KFRD KCRM CMGT PINR IS |
| 10TOKYO167 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/27/10 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-27 02:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 90STATE284025 | WHITE PAPER ON LIBYAN SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM [...] THE DEPARTMENT WILL RELEASE A WHITE PAPER TITLED "LIBYAN SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM THREATENS THE MIDDLE EAST" ON MONDAY, AUGUST 27. THE TEXT OF THE WHITE PAPER, AND GUIDANCE FOR ANSWERING PRESS/HOST GOVERNMENT INQUIRIES, FOLLOWS. A HARD COPY OF THE REPORT WILL BE POUCHED TO POSTS. 2.BEGIN TE [...] | 1990-08-24 00:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER OPRC LY IS |
| 94ZAGREB827 | TFSROL: SEVERE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN B-H: [...] (U) THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF REPORTS OF INTERVIEWS OF WAR CRIMES VICTIMS CONDUCTED IN LATE 1993 IN MAOCA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, BY A DART/ZAGREB FIELD REP AND AN AMCIT IRC REP WHILE THEY WERE IN THE AREA ASSESSING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE NEEDS. THIS REPORT NAMES VICTIMS AND, IN SOME C [...] | 1994-02-28 16:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF HR BK |
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