In 2010 The Guardian broke the story \u201cUS diplomats spied on UN leadership<\/a><\/span>\u201d based on a leaked US diplomatic cable which explains how Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the\u00a0United Nations, including the secretary general,\u00a0Ban Ki-moon\u00a0and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK. \u00a0US also spied on UN views on Sri Lanka the Colombo Telegraph can\u00a0reveal today.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hillary Clinton<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cA classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton’s name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications.\u201d The Guardian said.<\/p>\n It\u00a0called for detailed biometric information\u00a0“on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders” as well as intelligence on Ban’s “management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat”.<\/p>\n Washington also wanted credit card numbers, email addresses, phone, fax and pager numbers and even frequent-flyer account numbers for UN figures and “biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives”.<\/p>\n The secret “national human intelligence collection directive” was sent to US missions at the UN in New York, Vienna and Rome; 33 embassies and consulates, including those in London, Paris and Moscow.<\/p>\n The operation targeted at the UN appears to have involved all of Washington’s main intelligence agencies. The CIA’s clandestine service, the US Secret Service and the FBI were included in the “reporting and collection needs” cable alongside the state department under the heading “collection requirements and tasking”.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0found the related US diplomatic cable from the\u00a0Secretary of State\u00a0section of the WikiLeaks database. The cable was classified as \u201cSECRET\u201d signed by Hillary Clinton on July 31, 2009.<\/p>\n Under the subheading \u201cHuman Rights and War Crimes (HRWC-3)\u201d Clinton asked to collect \u201cViews and intentions of UNSC, UN human rights entities, and members regarding Sri Lankan government policies on human rights and humanitarian assistance; UN views about appointing a Special Envoy for Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the cable below for further details;<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375,27,2223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks","category-wikileaks-latest-popular"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hillary-Clinton-.jpeg\" "\\"Hillary-Clinton-\\"")
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S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 24 STATE 080163\r\n\r\nNOFORN\r\nSIPDIS\r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 07\/31\/2034\r\nTAGS: PINR<\/a> KSPR<\/a> ECON<\/a> KPKO<\/a> KUNR<\/a>\r\nSUBJECT: (S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: THE UNITED\r\nNATIONS\r\n\r\nREF: STATE 048489\r\n\r\nClassified By: MICHAEL OWENS, ACTING DIR, INR\/OPS. REASON: 1.4(C).\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>1. (S\/NF) This cable provides the full text of the new\r\nNational HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on the United\r\nNations (paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for continued\r\nDOS reporting of biographic information relating to the\r\nUnited Nations (paragraph 2).\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>A. (S\/NF) The NHCD below supercedes the 2004 NHCD and\r\nreflects the results of a recent Washington review of\r\nreporting and collection needs focused on the United Nations.\r\nThe review produced a comprehensive list of strategic\r\npriorities (paragraph 3) and reporting and collection needs\r\n(paragraph 4) intended to guide participating USG agencies as\r\nthey allocate resources and update plans to collect\r\ninformation on the United Nations. The priorities should\r\nalso serve as a useful tool to help the Embassy manage\r\nreporting and collection, including formulation of Mission\r\nStrategic Plans (MSPs).\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>B. (S\/NF) This NHCD is compliant with the National\r\nIntelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), which was\r\nestablished in response to NSPD-26 of February 24, 2003. If\r\nneeded, GRPO can provide further background on the NIPF and\r\nthe use of NIPF abbreviations (shown in parentheses following\r\neach sub-issue below) in NHCDs.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>C. (S\/NF) Important information often is available to\r\nnon-State members of the Country Team whose agencies\r\nparticipated in the review of this National HUMINT Collection\r\nDirective. COMs, DCMs, and State reporting officers can\r\nassist by coordinating with other Country Team members to\r\nencourage relevant reporting through their own or State\r\nDepartment channels.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>2. (S\/NF) State biographic reporting:\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>A. (S\/NF) The intelligence community relies on State\r\nreporting officers for much of the biographical information\r\ncollected worldwide. Informal biographic reporting via email\r\nand other means is vital to the community's collection\r\nefforts and can be sent to the INR\/B (Biographic) office for\r\ndissemination to the IC.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>B. (S\/NF) Reporting officers should include as much of the\r\nfollowing information as possible when they have information\r\nrelating to persons linked to : office and\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 002 OF 024\r\n\r\norganizational titles; names, position titles and other\r\ninformation on business cards; numbers of telephones, cell\r\nphones, pagers and faxes; compendia of contact information,\r\nsuch as telephone directories (in compact disc or electronic\r\nformat if available) and e-mail listings; internet and\r\nintranet \"handles\", internet e-mail addresses, web site\r\nidentification-URLs; credit card account numbers; frequent\r\nflyer account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant\r\nbiographical information.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>3. (S\/NF) Priority issues and issues outline:\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>A. Key Near-Term Issues\r\n1) Darfur\/Sudan (FPOL-1)\r\n2) Afghanistan\/Pakistan (FPOL-1)\r\n3) Somalia (FPOL-1)\r\n4) Iran (FPOL-1)\r\n5) North Korea (FPOL-1)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>B. Key Continuing Issues\r\n1) UN Security Council Reform (FPOL-1)\r\n2) Iraq (FPOL-1)\r\n3) Middle East Peace Process (FPOL-1)\r\n4) Human Rights and War Crimes (HRWC-3)\r\n5) UN Humanitarian and Complex Emergency Response\r\n(HREL-3)\r\n6) Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction\r\n(WMDN-5H)\r\n7) Terrorist Threat to UN Operations (TERR-5H)\r\n8) Burma (FPOL-1)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>C. UN Peace and Peacebuilding Operations\r\n1) Africa (FPOL-1)\r\n2) Outside Africa (FPOL-1)\r\n3) Policy Issues (FPOL-1)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>D. UN Security Council\r\n1) Procedures and Dynamics (FPOL-1)\r\n2) Sanctions (FPOL-1)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>E. UN Management\r\n1) UN Leadership Dynamics (FPOL-1)\r\n2) Budget and Management Reform (FPOL-1)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>F. UN General Assembly Tactics and Voting Blocs (FPOL-1)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>G. Other Substantive Issues\r\n1) Food Security (FOOD-3)\r\n2) Climate Change, Energy, and Environment (ENVR-4)\r\n3) Transnational Economic Issues (ECFS-4H)\r\n4) Arms Control and Treaty Monitoring (ACTM-4)\r\n5) Health Issues (HLTH-4)\r\n6) Terrorism (TERR-5H)\r\n7) Trafficking, Social, and Women's Issues (DEPS-5H)\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 003 OF 024\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>H. Intelligence and Security Topics\r\n1) GRPO can provide text of this issue.\r\n2) GRPO can provide text of this issue.\r\n3) Foreign Nongovernmental Organizations (FPOL-1)\r\n4) Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information\r\nSystems (INFR-5H)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>15. Collection requirements and tasking\r\n\r\n(Agriculture is the Department of Agriculture; Commerce is\r\nthe Department of Commerce; DHS is the Department of Homeland\r\nSecurity; DIA\/DH is Defense Intelligence Agency\/Defense\r\nHUMINT; Energy is the Department of Energy; DNI\/OSC is the\r\nOpen Source Center of the Director of National Intelligence;\r\nFBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation; HHS is the\r\nDepartment of Health and Human Services; Navy is the Navy\r\nHUMINT element; NCS\/CS is the CIA's Clandestine Service;\r\nOSC\/MSC is the Map Services Center of OSC; State is the\r\nDepartment of State; TAREX (Target Exploitation) collects\r\ninformation using HUMINT Methods in support of NSA's\r\nrequirements; Treasury is the Department of Treasury; USAID\r\nis the U.S. Agency for International Development; USSS is the\r\nU.S. Secret Service; USTR is the U.S. Trade Representative;\r\nWINPAC is the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and\r\nArms Control Center.)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>A. Key Near-Term Issues\r\n\r\n1) Darfur\/Sudan (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Views of United Nations (UN) member states on contributing\r\ntroops and air transportation equipment, such as helicopters,\r\nto the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the African Union\r\n(AU)-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).\r\n-- Details of deployments of troop contributor countries to\r\nUNMIS\/UNAMID.\r\n-- Details on actions and views of UN personnel deployed in\r\nUNMIS\/UNAMID.\r\n-- Views of UNSC members on the success or failure of\r\nUNMIS\/UNAMID.\r\n-- Operational plans of UNMIS\/UNAMID from both the UN\r\nDepartment of Peacekeeping Operations in New York, and\r\nUNMIS\/UNAMID in Sudan.\r\n-- Details of diplomatic engagement between UNMIS\/UNAMID\r\nSpecial Envoys for the Darfur Peace Process in Sudan, and the\r\nSudanese government or Darfur rebel groups.\r\n-- Views of member states on UN activities in Sudan\r\n(including Darfur).\r\n-- Divisions between UN member and UN Secretariat assessments\r\nof the situation on the ground as it affects UN action.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya,\r\nMexico, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda,\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 004 OF 024\r\n\r\nVietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, European Union (EU), UN\r\n\r\n2) Afghanistan\/Pakistan (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of key UN leaders and member states\r\nregarding the ongoing operations of the UN Assistance Mission\r\nin Afghanistan (UNAMA), including force protection in\r\nAfghanistan.\r\n-- Information on plans and intentions of UN leadership or\r\nmember states affecting elections in Afghanistan.\r\n-- Reactions to and assessments of security threats directed\r\nat the UN or aid personnel attempting to render humanitarian\r\nassistance.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of key member states and Secretariat\r\nleadership concerning Afghan political and economic\r\nreconstruction, including efforts to combat warlords and drug\r\ntrafficking.\r\n-- Afghan, Pakistani and Iranian intentions or reluctance to\r\nsecure and safeguard UN and nongovernmental organization\r\n(NGO) personnel (international as well as locally-hired\r\nstaff).\r\n\r\nCountries: Afghanistan, Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa\r\nRica, Croatia, France, Iran, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Pakistan,\r\nRussia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nTerrorist Groups: Taliban\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, UN, World Bank\r\n\r\n3) Somalia (FPOL-1).\r\n-- UN plans and potential to expand, reinforce, or replace\r\nthe UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) and African Union\r\n(AU) Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UN leadership, the Department of\r\nPeacekeeping Operations, and member states to deploy a UN-led\r\nmaritime force to monitor piracy off the coast of Somalia.\r\n-- Willingness of member states to pledge troops or air\r\ntransport to a possible UN or multinational force in Somalia.\r\n-- Views of Somali population on the deployment of a UN or\r\nmultinational peacekeeping force in Somalia.\r\n-- Details of diplomatic engagement between UN envoys and\r\nSomali government or Somali opposition officials.\r\n-- Information on World Food Program activities in Somalia.\r\n-- Details of UN Development Program (UNDP)-Somalia training\r\nTransitional Federal Government police officers and Alliance\r\nfor the Reliberation of Somalia officials in the Joint\r\nSecurity Force.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Costa\r\nRica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico,\r\nRussia, Somalia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, NATO, UN\r\n\r\n4) Iran (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of the UN Secretary General (SYG),\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 005 OF 024\r\n\r\nSecretariat staff, or member states to address efforts by\r\nIran to develop, test, or proliferate nuclear weapons.\r\n-- Positions and responses of member states to future\r\nInternational Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) Director\r\nGeneral reports on Iran,s Implementation of Safeguards and\r\nrelevant provisions of UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.\r\n-- Specific plans and activities of the UK, France, Germany\r\n(EU-3), and Russia with respect to IAEA policy toward Iran.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of key UN leaders and member states,\r\nespecially Russia and China, regarding human rights in Iran,\r\nsanctions on Iran, Iran,s arming of HAMAS and Hizballah, and\r\nIran,s candidacy for UN leadership positions.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of Perm 5, other key member states,\r\ncoalition partners, and key Secretariat officials concerning\r\nsanctions against Iran.\r\n-- Member support\/opposition\/subversion of US positions\r\nregarding Iranian sanctions.\r\n-- Iranian diplomatic efforts with the IAEA and UN member\r\nstates to avoid passage of additional sanctions and effective\r\nimplementation of existing sanctions, as well as its efforts\r\nto end UNSC involvement in Iran's nuclear program by\r\nreturning Iran's nuclear file to the IAEA.\r\n-- Information on Iran,s activities as chair of the UNDP and\r\nwithin the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).\r\n-- Development and democratization activities of the UNDP in\r\nIran; details about the UNDP Resident Coordinator,s\r\nrelationship with Iranian officials.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Libya,\r\nMexico, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nTerrorist Groups: HAMAS, Hizballah (Lebanese)\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, IAEA, UN\r\nNon-State Entities: West Bank and Gaza Strip\r\n\r\n5) North Korea (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UNSC members, especially the P-5,\r\nto consider additional resolutions against North Korea and\/or\r\nsanctions under existing resolutions.\r\n-- Information on the plans and actions of UNSC members to\r\naddress efforts by North Korea to develop, test, or\r\nproliferate nuclear weapons.\r\n-- UN views on food aid to North Korea, designating it as a\r\nnation in famine, and misuse of aid.\r\n-- North Korean delegation views and activities;\r\ninstructions\/plans of delegation officials on North Korean\r\nWMD-related issues.\r\n-- Development and democratization activities of the UNDP in\r\nNorth Korea.\r\n-- Details about the UNDP Resident Coordinator,s\r\nrelationship with North Korean officials.\r\n-- Biographic and biometric information on ranking North\r\nKorean diplomats.\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 006 OF 024\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, North Korea, Russia,\r\nTurkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, IAEA, UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>B. Key Continuing Issues\r\n\r\n1) UN Security Council Reform (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Positions, attitudes, and divisions among member states on\r\nUN Security Council (UNSC) reform.\r\n-- Views, plans and intentions of Perm 5 and other member\r\nstates on the issue of UNSC enlargement, revision of UNSC\r\nprocedures or limitation of Perm 5 privileges.\r\n-- International deliberations regarding UNSC expansion among\r\nkey groups of countries: self-appointed frontrunners for\r\npermanent UNSC membership Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan\r\n(the Group of Four or G-4); the Uniting for Consensus group\r\n(especially Mexico, Italy, and Pakistan) that opposes\r\nadditional permanent UNSC seats; the African Group; and the\r\nEU, as well as key UN officials within the Secretariat and\r\nthe UN General Assembly (UNGA) Presidency.\r\n-- Willingness of member states to implement proposed reforms.\r\n-- Reactions of UN senior leadership towards member\r\nrecommendations for UNSC reform.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Libya, Mexico,\r\nPakistan, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, UN\r\n\r\n2) Iraq (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of the Perm 5, other key member\r\nstates, coalition partners, and key Secretariat officials\r\nconcerning Iraqi political and economic reconstruction, the\r\nUN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), and internal Iraqi\r\nboundaries.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of the International Organization for\r\nMigration to assist with the reintegration of internally\r\ndisplaced persons and refugees.\r\n-- Extent to which member states will support or subvert US\r\npositions regarding Iraqi objectives, including\r\nreconstruction efforts.\r\n-- Information on plans and intentions of the SYG,\r\nSecretariat staff, or member states affecting elections in\r\nIraq.\r\n-- Iraqi actions to convert UNAMI to a Chapter 6 mission.\r\n-- Iraqi attitudes toward the UN.\r\n-- Reactions to and assessments of security threats directed\r\nat the UN or aid personnel attempting to render humanitarian\r\nassistance.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Iraq, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 007 OF 024\r\n\r\nTerrorist Groups: Insurgents in Iraq, Iraqi Shia Militants\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, UN, World Bank\r\n\r\n3) Middle East Peace Process (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Details on views, plans and intentions of key Secretariat\r\ndecision-makers, member states and influential blocs and\r\ncoalitions on UN engagement and role in the Middle East Peace\r\nProcess (MEPP), including implementation of the roadmap.\r\n-- Indications that a UNGA special session on the Middle East\r\nmight be reconvened.\r\n-- Developments within the UN system that would further the\r\nArab-Israeli peace process.\r\n-- Details about Quartet (EU, UN, US, and Russia) MEPP plans\r\nand efforts, including private objectives behind proposals\r\nand envoy negotiating strategies.\r\n-- Strategy and plans of SYG special envoy regarding US\r\npositions, Quartet plans, and other (EU, Russia, UK) special\r\nenvoys.\r\n-- Indications member states or donor countries might scale\r\nback UN peacekeeping presence in or aid donations to the\r\nMiddle East.\r\n-- Plans of the SYG or member states to pressure the US on\r\nthe MEPP.\r\n-- Views, plans and tactics of the Palestinian Authority,\r\nincluding its representative to the UN, to gain support in\r\nthe UNSC, UNGA, or UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its\r\nstrategies and positions on Palestinian-Israeli issues,\r\nincluding from Russia and EU countries, especially France,\r\nGermany, and UK.\r\n-- Views of Secretary General,s Special Envoy and UNSC on\r\npossible settlement of the Shab'a Farms dispute to include\r\nSyria\/Lebanon border demarcation.\r\n-- Secretariat views regarding water management as part of\r\nthe Middle East Peace Process, including domestic and\r\nregional competition for allocation.\r\n-- Quartet views on Syria's policies and approach toward\r\nIsrael and Palestinians and on Syrian motives behind and\r\nefforts to subvert or support Israeli-Palestinian\r\nnegotiations.\r\n-- UN efforts to influence negotiating positions on\r\nterritorial boundaries, water resources and management, and\r\nright of return.\r\n-- Views, plans and tactics of HAMAS to gain support in the\r\nUNSC or UNGA for its strategies and positions on\r\nHAMAS-Israeli issues, and on HAMAS-Palestinian Authority\r\nissues, including from Russia, China, Iran, and EU countries,\r\nespecially France, Germany, and the UK.\r\n-- Information on UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)\r\nactivities in Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West\r\nBank, and its relations with HAMAS\/Hizballah.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to support\/oppose US\r\npriority to reduce the number of Middle East resolutions.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 008 OF 024\r\n\r\nCroatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,\r\nJordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Spain, Syria, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nTerrorist Groups: HAMAS, Hizballah (Lebanese)\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, UN\r\nNon-State Entities: Palestinian Authority, West Bank and\r\nGaza Strip\r\n\r\n4) Human Rights and War Crimes (HRWC-3).\r\n-- Plans and policies of UN leaders, member states, and\r\nforeign NGOs to promote human rights.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states toward the\r\nInternational Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal\r\nTribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International\r\nCriminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Tribunal for\r\nLebanon, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and other\r\nUN-related courts and tribunals dealing with human rights\r\nissues.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UNHRC members to support or oppose\r\nUS policies in the UNHRC.\r\n-- Views of UNSC and other member states on Zimbabwe,s\r\ngovernment policies on human rights, humanitarian assistance,\r\ndemocracy, and candidacy for any UN leadership positions.\r\n-- Views and intentions of UNSC, UN human rights entities,\r\nand members regarding Sri Lankan government policies on human\r\nrights and humanitarian assistance; UN views about\r\nappointing a Special Envoy for Sri Lanka.\r\n-- Plans and perceptions of member states toward\r\nestablishment of new measures to prevent genocide, crimes\r\nagainst humanity, war crimes, and other systematic human\r\nrights abuses.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states toward proposals and\r\nresolutions supported by the US or like-minded states,\r\nincluding those advancing democracy; women's rights,\r\nparticularly implementation of UNSC Resolutions 1325 and\r\n1820; those pertaining to children in armed conflict; or\r\nthose condemning human rights abuses in individual countries.\r\n-- Information on reactions of member states to resolutions\r\ndesigned to promote democracy, human rights and reforms in\r\nthe Muslim world.\r\n-- Perceived success or failure of abilities and priorities\r\nof the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights\r\n(OHCHR), and efforts by member states to undermine OHCHR\r\nindependence.\r\n-- Views, intentions and tactics of UNHRC members regarding\r\nreform and the role of the US.\r\n-- Member state support for\/opposition to objectives of human\r\nrights, refugee, development, and emergency relief agencies.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states or UN Special\r\nRapporteurs to press for resolutions or investigations into\r\nUS counterterrorism strategies and treatment of detainees in\r\nIraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo.\r\n-- Degree of coordination by and among human rights agencies,\r\nespecially between the UN Human Rights Council, the OHCHR,\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 009 OF 024\r\n\r\nthe UNGA Third Committee, the UN Economic and Social Council,\r\nand the International Labor Organization.\r\n-- Plans and agenda for upcoming UNGA Third Committee and\r\nUNHRC sessions and world human rights conferences,\r\nparticularly plans by developing countries to stymie\r\ncriticism of their human rights records through procedural\r\nmotions or influencing votes.\r\n-- Plans of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to\r\nsponsor resolutions or conventions in the UN restricting\r\nfreedom of speech under the rubric of criminalizing\r\n\"defamation of religion.\"\r\n-- Details of UNHRC and OHCHR budget shortfalls.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Chad, China, Costa\r\nRica, Croatia, Cuba, France, Georgia, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon,\r\nLibya, Mexico, North Korea, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,\r\nSudan, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, Human Rights Entities\r\nand War Crimes Courts, ICC, OIC, UN\r\n\r\n5) UN Humanitarian and Complex Emergency Response\r\n(HREL-3).\r\n-- Information on the planning and execution of responses to\r\nhumanitarian emergencies by UN member states and Secretariat;\r\nindications US assistance may be requested.\r\n-- Efforts of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),\r\nOffice for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),\r\nWorld Food Program (WFP), UN Development Program (UNDP), UN\r\nChildren's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO),\r\nand other UN entities to respond to and to coordinate\r\nactivities in humanitarian or refugee crises, including\r\nenvironmental disasters.\r\n-- Views of UN Secretariat, UNSC members, and key member\r\nstates on UNRWA.\r\n-- Details on effectiveness of UNHCR and OCHA leadership.\r\n-- Information on ability of UN to gain\/not gain humanitarian\r\naccess to troubled areas, especially in light of security\r\nconcerns.\r\n-- Location of humanitarian facilities, including GPS\r\ncoordinates, and number of personnel.\r\n-- Details of friction between UNHCR, OCHA and UN Security\r\nCoordinator Headquarters and field offices.\r\n-- Level of cooperation and coordination or lack thereof\r\nbetween UN aid agencies and non-UN aid programs.\r\n-- Interoperability and willingness to work with US\r\ncoalitions in humanitarian assistance operations; willingness\r\nto provide support despite security threats.\r\n-- Indications of donor fatigue.\r\n-- Status of and member support for\/opposition to efforts by\r\nUNHCR to refocus organization's work and to redistribute\r\nprograms to other agencies.\r\n-- Details on UNHCR funding shortfalls.\r\n-- Perceived ability of the UNDP to coordinate an effective\r\nUN presence in each country and to promote democratic\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 010 OF 024\r\n\r\ngovernance.\r\n-- Plans and ability to care for and protect internally\r\ndisplaced persons.\r\n-- Communications and logistics problems.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: Economic-Societal Entities,\r\nFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN, World Health\r\nOrganization\r\n\r\n6) Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction\r\n(WMDN-5H).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to address threats\r\nto international security from the proliferation of weapons\r\nof mass destruction.\r\n-- Views of member states on tactical and substantive aspects\r\nof resolutions pertaining to missile proliferation, missile\r\ndefense, nuclear disarmament, the IAEA, and Israel's nuclear\r\nprogram.\r\n-- Information from key Secretariat decision-makers, key IAEA\r\nSecretariat staff, member states, or influential blocs or\r\ngroups, such as the Nonaligned Movement (NAM), the OIC, or\r\nthe Group of 77 (G-77), on the role of the UN on nuclear\r\nproliferation or addressing the expansion of capabilities to\r\nproduce or use weapons of mass destruction.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, IAEA, International Arms\r\nControl Organizations, OIC, UN\r\n\r\n7) Terrorist Threat to UN Operations (TERR-5H).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of Secretariat and member states to\r\nrespond to individuals affiliated with terrorist groups or\r\nstate sponsors of terrorism threatening the safety or\r\nsecurity of domestic and overseas UN personnel, facilities,\r\nprotectees, or installations.\r\n-- Evidence of relationship or funding between UN personnel\r\nand\/or missions and terrorist organizations.\r\n-- Debate in Secretariat, UNSC counterterrorism bodies\r\n(subcommittees), UN agencies and among member states about\r\nmeasures for funding of security for UN domestic and overseas\r\nfacilities, operations, and personnel.\r\n-- Host-country intentions to secure and safeguard UN and NGO\r\npersonnel.\r\n-- Reactions to and assessments of terrorist acts directed at\r\nthe UN, UN personnel, UN protectees, or domestic and overseas\r\nUN installations, including foreign UN missions in New York.\r\n-- Details of UN efforts to acquire, collect, assess and\r\ndisseminate threat information within the US and overseas.\r\n-- Plans of UN security offices to upgrade security at UN\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 011 OF 024\r\n\r\ndomestic and overseas UN facilities.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: UN\r\n\r\n8) Burma (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Views of UNSC and member states on Burma,s policies and\r\nactions on human rights, humanitarian assistance, democracy,\r\nand attempts to play a larger UN role.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of the Special Adviser to the UN\r\nSecretary General on Burma regarding future interaction with\r\nBurma and engagement with UN member states.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of the SYG on Burma; level of trust\r\nin his Special Adviser.\r\n-- Views of Burmese officials on the SYG, on his Special\r\nAdviser on Burma, and on key countries in the UN.\r\n-- Role of the UN in Burmese elections.\r\n-- Development and democratization activities of UNDP in\r\nBurma; details about the UNDP Resident Coordinator,s\r\nrelationship with Burmese officials.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia,\r\nTurkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>C. UN Peace and Peacebuilding Operations.\r\n\r\n1) Africa (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UN leaders and member states\r\nregarding peace operations, especially in the Democratic\r\nRepublic of the Congo, Somalia, Chad\/Central African\r\nRepublic, Burundi, Cote d,Ivoire, and Liberia.\r\n-- UN peacekeeping plans and intentions regarding military\r\noperations against rebels based in the eastern part of the\r\nDemocratic Republic of the Congo.\r\n-- Early warning information available to the Secretariat on\r\npotential threats to peace and security.\r\n-- UN views on the role of AFRICOM in African conflict\r\nresolution and post-conflict capacity building.\r\n-- UN expectations of US military involvement in African\r\npeacekeeping missions and how this may influence UN\r\nwillingness to establish, curb, or end missions.\r\n-- Extent to which UN peace operations in Africa are\r\nstraining the resources of the UN and member states; impact\r\nof current operations on future operations and readiness.\r\n-- UN views on peacekeeping mission creep and pressures to\r\nexpand the UN role in African conflict zones, either in the\r\nform of more comprehensive \"peacemaking\" mission mandates or\r\nin areas where security threats demand more aggressive and\r\ntimely UN-led multilateral intervention.\r\n-- Details on views of the UN Department of Peacekeeping\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 012 OF 024\r\n\r\nOperations on operational plans, including the ability of the\r\nUN and its member states to build capacity in Africa,\r\nincluding by working with the AU or other regional\r\norganizations and NGOs.\r\n-- Efforts by China, France, Iran, and others to gain\r\ninfluence in Africa via UN peace operations.\r\n-- Information on extent of support and capabilities for\r\npeace operations by the AU and the Economic Community of\r\nWestern African States (ECOWAS).\r\n-- Official stance on deploying HIV positive troops and\r\nactual practice.\r\n-- Degree to which official peacekeeping reporting matches\r\nunofficial communications of events; views on those\r\ndiscrepancies.\r\n-- Views of African states that host peacekeepers regarding\r\nUN peacekeeping troops and troop contributing countries.\r\n-- Attitudes and intentions of Ghana and Rwanda concerning UN\r\npeace operations in Africa and perception of their relative\r\nability to contribute to such efforts.\r\n-- Attitudes of other African States to Ghana\/Rwanda\r\nparticipation and leadership.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi,\r\nCentral African Republic, Chad, China, Congo, Cote d,Ivoire,\r\nDemocratic Republic, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia,\r\nFrance, India, Japan, Jordan, Liberia, Libya, Mexico, Nepal,\r\nNigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa,\r\nTurkey, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zimbabwe\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, ICC, NATO, UN\r\nNon-State Entities: Lord,s Resistance Army\r\n\r\n2) Outside Africa (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UN leaders and member states\r\nregarding ongoing peace operations outside Africa.\r\n-- Willingness of UN leaders and member states to support UN\r\npeacekeeping efforts and utilize preventive diplomacy in\r\nareas of potential conflict.\r\n-- Views of member states on and plans to respond to the\r\nUS-backed G-8 plan to expand global peace operations\r\ncapabilities.\r\n-- Views and positions of key member states and Secretariat\r\ntoward proposed resolutions, mandates, peacekeeping issues,\r\nand US-sponsored initiatives.\r\n-- Information on whether member states will utilize\r\nreferences to the ICC to condition support for peace\r\noperations.\r\n-- Information on deployment benchmarks, pre-deployment\r\nscreening, and supply and logistic shortfalls in peace\r\noperations.\r\n-- Ability to obtain pledges and deploy capable military\r\nforces, including surge capabilities.\r\n-- Views of UNSC members, the Secretariat, and key member\r\nstates on Haiti,s government policies and actions on human\r\nrights, humanitarian assistance, and democracy.\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 013 OF 024\r\n\r\n-- Views and positions of UNSC members, the Secretariat, and\r\nkey member states regarding the UN Interim Force in Lebanon\r\n(UNIFIL) and peacekeeping in Lebanon.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Georgia, Haiti, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,\r\nLebanon, Libya, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Uganda,\r\nUruguay, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, ICC, NATO, UN\r\n\r\n3) Policy Issues (FPOL-1).\r\n-- UN member views, plans, and intentions concerning the\r\ncapability of the UN to organize, lead, and carry out new,\r\ncomplex military operations and civilian police operations.\r\n-- Information on Secretariat or member views on or\r\ninitiatives for peace operations reform.\r\n-- Information on the appointment of SYG special\r\nrepresentatives for new peace or political operations.\r\n-- Scope, objectives, command structures, rules of\r\nengagement, and threat environment for proposed peacekeeping\r\nactivities, including transportation and communications\r\ninfrastructures and any available maps.\r\n-- Types, number, and capabilities of troops, equipment, and\r\nmateriel that countries are willing to contribute.\r\n-- Information on interoperability of equipment and material\r\navailable for logistic support.\r\n-- Information on turf battles between the Department of\r\nPeacekeeping Operations, Department of Field Support, and\r\nDepartment of Political Affairs over control of peace\r\noperations.\r\n-- Information on turf battles between logistic and military\r\nsides of peace operations.\r\n-- UN member views on reform of the Department of\r\nPeacekeeping Operations.\r\n-- Information on troop contributing countries' tendency to\r\nfollow orders given by troop contributing country commanders\r\nvice UN field commanders.\r\n-- Influence of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human\r\nRights (OHCHR) and the Office of the High Commissioner for\r\nRefugees (UNCHR) on including human rights and refugee\r\nconcerns within peace operations mandates.\r\n-- Host government views and concerns about UN policies\r\ntoward that country.\r\n-- Influence of UN security coordinator on operational\r\nplanning; field personnel reaction to UN security directives.\r\n-- Capability\/plans for Standby High-Readiness Brigade\r\n(SHIRBRIG) deployments.\r\n-- Details on peacekeeper abuse of women and children;\r\nnational and UN responses.\r\n-- Changes in ability of member states, especially member\r\nstates of EU, AU and ECOWAS, to contribute troops to peace\r\noperations, including for economic, social, and operational\r\nreasons.\r\n-- Details on contributions of member states (in kind,\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 014 OF 024\r\n\r\npersonnel, or financial).\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Costa\r\nRica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan,\r\nJordan, Libya, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia,\r\nRwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda,\r\nUruguay, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>D. UN Security Council\r\n\r\n1) Procedures and Dynamics (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UNSC members and\r\nSecretariat on issues that come before the UNSC, especially\r\nvoting intentions of UNSC members and priorities or frictions\r\namong the Perm 5.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UNSC members to support or oppose\r\nUS policies in the UNSC.\r\n-- Specific views and positions of key member states on\r\nUS-sponsored initiatives, initiatives with implications for\r\nthe US, and other proposed resolutions and mandates.\r\n-- Plans, intentions, views, positions, lobbying, and tactics\r\nof regional groups, blocs, or coalitions on issues before the\r\nUNSC, especially those that do not include the US\r\n(particularly the Africa Group, AU, EU, NAM, G-77, Rio Group,\r\nArab League, the OIC, and the Group of Latin America and\r\nCaribbean Countries (GRULAC).\r\n-- Differences in the positions of member states, differences\r\nbetween UN missions and their capitals, internal procedures\r\nfor determining voting instructions, and voting instructions\r\nto delegations.\r\n-- Priorities, plans, and intentions of new member states\r\njoining the UNSC, and influences on them by regional groups,\r\nblocs, or coalitions on issues before the UNSC, especially\r\nthose that do not include the US (particularly AU, EU, NAM,\r\nG-77, Rio Group, Arab League, and the OIC).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states of regional groups\r\nregarding UNSC candidacy.\r\n-- Biographic and biometric information on UNSC Permanent\r\nRepresentatives, information on their relationships with\r\ntheir capitals.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, OIC, UN\r\n\r\n2) Sanctions (FPOL-1).\r\n-- UNSC member plans, intentions, and views toward sanctions\r\nissues, especially during negotiations of sanctions\r\nresolutions.\r\n-- Willingness of and efforts by UN member states to violate\r\nsanctions.\r\n-- Perceived and actual impact of sanctions on target\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 015 OF 024\r\n\r\ngovernments, individuals, entities, as well as on civil\r\npopulation.\r\n-- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UNSC sanctions committee\r\nmembers.\r\n-- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UNSC sanctions committee\r\nexpert groups and their ability to support sanctions\r\nmonitoring.\r\n-- Pressure to limit scope and length of new sanctions,\r\nespecially from coalitions and regional groups.\r\n-- Views and actions of the Secretariat or member states with\r\nregard to sanctions, including to bolster UN ability to\r\nsupport sanctions implementation and to address violations.\r\n-- Views of target government on sanctions imposed on it.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone,\r\nTurkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>E. UN Management\r\n\r\n1) UN Leadership Dynamics (FPOL-1).\r\n-- SYG's management and decision-making style, and his\r\ninfluence on the Secretariat.\r\n-- Plans, measures and efforts undertaken by the SYG and\r\nsubordinates on US political and bureaucratic objectives for\r\nUN management.\r\n-- Role and influence of Secretariat and other key officials\r\nwith SYG and other UN system agencies.\r\n-- Views of and brokering by key officials on major issues.\r\n-- Changes in and appointment and selection process for key\r\nofficials of Secretariat, specialized agency, committee,\r\ncommission, and program officials in New York, Geneva,\r\nVienna, and other UN system cities, to include special\r\nassistants and chiefs of staff.\r\n-- Personalities, biographic and biometric information,\r\nroles, effectiveness, management styles, and influence of key\r\nUN officials, to include under secretaries, heads of\r\nspecialized agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG aides,\r\nheads of peace operations and political field missions,\r\nincluding force commanders.\r\n-- Relations between key UN officials and member states.\r\n-- Views of member states on the next SYG race, to include\r\npreferred candidates and candidates lacking UN member support.\r\n-- Views of UNSC members and other member states on Cuban,\r\nIranian, or Syrian candidacy for any UN leadership positions.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, Cuba, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Syria,\r\nTurkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: UN\r\n\r\n2) Budget and Management Reform (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans, measures and efforts undertaken by the SYG and\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 016 OF 024\r\n\r\nsubordinates on US political and bureaucratic objectives for\r\nUN management.\r\n-- Perceptions of member states of the effectiveness of the\r\nOffice for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) and the Joint\r\nInspection Unit (JIU) to combat waste, fraud, mismanagement,\r\nand corruption.\r\n-- Effectiveness of the OIOS, in light of the review of the\r\nOIOS mandate.\r\n-- Plans and moves to implement OIOS recommendations.\r\n-- SYG's view of the role of the OIOS.\r\n-- Secretariat attitudes toward and evidence of corruption in\r\nUN agencies and programs, and willingness to implement\r\nmeasures to reduce corruption.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UN member states or the\r\nSecretariat to address corruption issues at the UN and UN\r\nagencies.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UNDP Executive Board members to\r\npush for or block management reform proposals.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UNDP Executive Board members or\r\nsenior UNDP managers to address potential or actual cases of\r\ncorruption or mismanagement by field missions, including\r\nefforts to cover up waste, fraud, or abuse.\r\n-- Internal complaints by UNDP staff about waste, fraud, or\r\nabuse and efforts by UNDP management to respond to them.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of Board members, such as Iran, to\r\npush for increased UNDP funding for programs in their own\r\ncountries or those of their friends.\r\n-- Degree of independence from UN headquarters of UNDP\r\nResident Coordinators in the field and perceptions of field\r\nstaff on UN aid consolidation reforms under the \"One UN\"\r\nProgram.\r\n-- Efforts by the G-77 Board members to develop common group\r\nplatforms, especially on budget and management reform issues.\r\n-- Developments in the implementation of the performance\r\nbased personnel system and contractor reform.\r\n-- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UN specialized agency\r\nexecutive committees.\r\n-- Impact and effectiveness of whistle-blowing provisions on\r\nthe UN reform process.\r\n-- Attitudes of UN staff and member states towards extending\r\na common whistle-blower protection program to all UN funds\r\nand programs.\r\n-- Indications of pressure by member states or groups to\r\nincrease or control growth in the budget.\r\n-- Secretariat and member attitudes towards changes in the\r\nscale of assessments.\r\n-- Options under consideration to resolve financial problems.\r\n-- SYG views on and plans for responding to Government\r\nAccountability Office reports calling on the UN to more\r\neffectively implement results-based budgeting, and make\r\nfurther progress on management reform.\r\n-- Secretariat and member attitudes and plans to improve the\r\nUN budget process.\r\n-- Status and use of advanced information systems to\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 017 OF 024\r\n\r\nstreamline UN processes.\r\n\r\nCountries: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China,\r\nCosta Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, France, Japan, Libya,\r\nMexico, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>F. UN General Assembly Tactics and Voting Blocs (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Plans, intentions, views, positions, lobbying, and tactics\r\nof regional groups, blocs, or coalitions on issues before the\r\nGeneral Assembly, especially those that do not include the\r\nUS, i.e., the Africa Group, AU, EU, NAM, G-77, Rio Group,\r\nArab League, the OIC, and the GRULAC.\r\n-- Details of bargaining on votes or candidacies and attempts\r\nto marginalize or undermine proposed or planned US positions\r\nor policy initiatives.\r\n-- Information on the EU agenda in the UNGA, especially as it\r\nrelates to US priorities in the First, Third, and Fifth\r\nCommittees.\r\n-- Information on efforts by the EU or other member states to\r\nsecure additional voting rights in the UN and its specialized\r\nagencies.\r\n-- Lobbying by member states for committee membership\r\nassignments or vice presidencies.\r\n-- Information on current and likely future leadership of\r\nregional groups, blocs, and coalitions.\r\n-- Differences over positions between UN missions and their\r\nrespective capitals.\r\n-- Voting instructions to delegations on key resolutions.\r\n-- Plans, intentions, and agendas of key committee chairs;\r\nmember views of issues that come before these committees.\r\n-- Efforts of Third World countries to moderate, via NAM and\r\nG-77, Third World positions on development, defamation of\r\nreligion, or human rights issues.\r\n-- Intentions of UN members to use non-UN bodies and working\r\ngroups to bypass perceived UN bureaucracy.\r\n-- Perceptions of member states of the viability and\r\npotential impact of the US-backed Democracy Caucus.\r\n-- Biographical and biometric information on key NAM\/G-77\/OIC\r\nPermanent Representatives, particularly China, Cuba, Egypt,\r\nIndia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan,\r\nUganda, Senegal, and Syria; information on their\r\nrelationships with their capitals.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, Cuba, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya,\r\nMalaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, South Africa,\r\nSudan, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: AU, EU, OIC, UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>G. Other Substantive Issues\r\n\r\n1) Food Security (FOOD-3).\r\n-- Status and proposals related to the UN Comprehensive\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 018 OF 024\r\n\r\nFramework for Action to address the global food crisis.\r\n-- WFP activities and proposals related to reforming donor\r\nfood aid policies and establishing a new standing global fund\r\nto address regularly occurring food crises.\r\n-- WFP and FAO plans and proposals regarding the impact on\r\nfood prices and food security of the growing use of ethanol\r\nand biofuels.\r\n-- Internal UN responses to international calls for reform of\r\nFAO and WFP.\r\n\r\nCountries: Afghanistan, Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa\r\nRica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Iraq, Japan, Libya,\r\nMexico, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Sudan,\r\nThailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe\r\nInternational Organizations: FAO, UN, World Animal Health\r\nOrganization\r\nNon-State Entities: Palestinian Authority, West Bank and\r\nGaza Strip\r\n\r\n2) Climate Change, Energy, and Environment (ENVR-4).\r\n-- Country preparations for the December 2009 Copenhagen UN\r\nFramework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Meeting.\r\n-- Developments related to other UNFCCC meetings and\r\ndiscussions on a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.\r\n-- Perceptions of key negotiators on US positions in\r\nenvironmental negotiations.\r\n-- Developments on the Montreal Protocol, including reactions\r\nto US efforts to limit hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).\r\n-- Indications that member states working through the UN and\r\nits specialized agencies are\/are not fostering environmental\r\ncooperation, partnerships and capacity building between and\r\namong member states and regional and sub-regional\r\norganizations.\r\n-- Monitoring of and compliance with UN-sponsored\r\nenvironmental treaties; evidence of treaty circumvention.\r\n-- Information on adherence to member states' own national\r\nenvironmental programs, including protection, monitoring, and\r\ncleanup efforts.\r\n-- Efforts by treaty secretariats to influence treaty\r\nnegotiations or compliance.\r\n-- Information on the Convention on Biological Diversity,\r\nparticularly on access, benefit sharing and bio-safety.\r\n-- Information on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,\r\nincluding potential efforts to modify or amend its provisions.\r\n-- Information on excessive maritime claims, including those\r\nrelating to ridges.\r\n-- Information on efforts to develop a mechanism to add\r\nchemicals to the list of persistent organic pollutants.\r\n-- Information and perceptions on the strategic approach to\r\ninternational chemicals management, especially efforts of the\r\nEU's management program.\r\n-- Information on participation in and compliance with the UN\r\nBasel Convention.\r\n-- Status of efforts to set standards to promote\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 019 OF 024\r\n\r\nenvironmental protection, including protection of forests,\r\ndesertification, and invasive or endangered species.\r\n-- Efforts within the UN to protect water resources, and to\r\npromote development of alternative sources of energy.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, UN\r\n\r\n3) Transnational Economic Issues (ECFS-4H).\r\n-- Information on efforts by UN member states or\r\norganizations to promote or obstruct regulatory reform,\r\nincluding banking and financial reforms, transparency,\r\ninternational law, trade, development, and foreign direct\r\ninvestment to reflect the Monterrey anti-poverty consensus\r\nand the Millennium Development Goals.\r\n-- Plans, intentions, and tactics of the UNGA President\r\nregarding international financial problems; views of member\r\nstates regarding these plans.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to support US\r\npriorities related to economic freedom and promotion of\r\ndemocracy.\r\n-- Secretariat or member plans to develop multilateral\r\neconomic, trade, or development agreements impinging on US\r\ninterests.\r\n-- Efforts by member states and the Secretariat to reconcile\r\ninternational differences over globalization, especially the\r\nperceived impact of globalization on human rights, labor, and\r\nenvironmental issues.\r\n-- Member positions on UN decisions, plans, and activities\r\nconcerning environmentally sustainable economic growth\r\nthrough market economies, free trade, private investment, and\r\nefficient multilateral development assistance.\r\n-- Efforts to expand the global compact involving\r\ncorporations committed to observing human rights,\r\nenvironmental, and labor standards.\r\n-- SYG's views and statements on trade issues and efforts to\r\ninfluence future World Trade Organization rounds.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of UN member states that may impact\r\nfreedom of navigation.\r\n-- Information on international taxation initiatives.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, FAO, International\r\nFinancial Institutions and Infrastructures, UN, World Bank,\r\nWorld Trade Organization\r\n\r\n4) Arms Control and Treaty Monitoring (ACTM-4).\r\n-- Plans, tactics, timetables, and draft proposals for the\r\nEighth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the\r\nNon-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and especially\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 020 OF 024\r\n\r\ninformation related to the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East\r\nand a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone initiative, from\r\ninterested individual member states (especially China, Cuba,\r\nEgypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, and South Africa) and\r\nlike-minded groups such as the NAM and the New Agenda\r\nCoalition (Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South\r\nAfrica, and Sweden).\r\n-- Member state views of the major problems facing the NPT;\r\nwhether or under what conditions states would consider\r\nwithdrawing from the NPT.\r\n-- Member views on and responses to US plans and policies on\r\nmissile defense and positions on a Fissile Material Cutoff\r\nTreaty, particularly those of Russia, China, and Pakistan.\r\n-- Information on IAEA plans for safeguards, international\r\nfuel banks, or other nuclear fuel supply arrangements, and\r\nmeetings of the Board of Governors at the IAEA.\r\n-- Member views on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty\r\n(CTBT); prospects for country ratifications and entry into\r\nforce.\r\n-- Member plans for plenary meetings of the Nuclear Suppliers\r\nGroup; views of the US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation\r\nInitiative.\r\n-- Readiness of member states to reform the agenda of the UN\r\nGeneral Assembly's First Committee; proposals prepared by\r\nmember states for the First Committee.\r\n-- Views of key delegations on US proposals on land mines.\r\n-- Tactical and substantive information regarding periodic\r\narms control meetings in New York, Geneva, Vienna and\r\nelsewhere, including the Biological Weapons Convention, the\r\nChemical Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation\r\nTreaty (NPT) review process, UN experts group on missiles,\r\nand meetings on conventional arms.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to introduce new\r\narms control or proliferation prevention measures or make\r\nsignificant changes to existing agreements.\r\n- Member or Secretariat plans to address WMD proliferation,\r\nsafeguards, arms control and disarmament, or other threat\r\nreduction efforts.\r\n-- Foreign attitudes on UN-sanctioned arms control\r\nnegotiations.\r\n-- Biographic and biometric data on, and positions of key UN\r\narms control interlocutors, especially candidates for the\r\nposition of Director General of the IAEA, and the heads of\r\nother international institutions.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, Cuba, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland,\r\nJapan, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South\r\nAfrica, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, IAEA, International Arms\r\nControl Organizations, NATO, OSCE, UN\r\n\r\n5) Health Issues (HLTH-4).\r\n-- UN, WHO, and other international organizations,\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 021 OF 024\r\n\r\nforecasts, expected impacts, plans, proposals, key studies,\r\nand reactions to major health crises and other health-related\r\nissues, including efforts on disease eradication, improving\r\nhealth standards and access to care and medicine, and\r\nprograms to monitor and respond to emerging infectious\r\ndisease outbreaks and other disasters or emergencies.\r\n-- Information on deliberations in the UN and other\r\ninternational health organizations on health issues and the\r\npolicy positions and objectives of member states and key\r\nfigures, including compromises, insertions, and items omitted\r\nin published declarations and studies.\r\n-- Information on international health organizations,\r\nrelationships and interactions with countries and other\r\norganizations, including relationships with regional offices\r\nor subsidiaries.\r\n-- Details on limits and restrictions placed on international\r\norganizations to investigate reports of diseases that pose an\r\ninternational threat, including restrictions placed on the\r\nnationality of members of investigation teams.\r\n-- Details on disease transparency, particularly indications\r\nabout inconsistent reporting of outbreaks to appropriate\r\ninternational organizations and delivery of specimens to WHO-\r\nand FAO-affiliated laboratories, and including discussions or\r\nagreements impacting the publicly disclosed occurrence of\r\ndiseases.\r\n-- Details of discussions related to the accessibility of\r\nHIV\/AIDS drugs (antiretroviral drugs or ARVs).\r\n-- Details related to the availability, accessibility, and\r\nregulation of health care, particularly medications,\r\nvaccines, and counterfeits.\r\n-- Member state attitudes toward maintenance of smallpox\r\nstocks.\r\n-- Information on global counterfeit medications to include\r\nsurveillance, countermeasures, and research and development\r\nissues.\r\n-- Details on efforts to implement health-related Millennium\r\nDevelopment Goals.\r\n-- Details on corruption in international health\r\norganizations or the corrupt use of goods and services\r\nprovided for health issues by bilateral and multilateral\r\ndonors and international health organizations, including WHO,\r\nUNAIDS, FAO, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis,\r\nand Malaria.\r\n-- Details on irregularities in Global Fund fundraising,\r\nspending, and treatment of whistle blowers.\r\n-- Personalities, biographic and biometric information,\r\nroles, effectiveness, management styles, and influence of key\r\nhealth officials, to include the Director General of the WHO,\r\nhead of UNAIDS, the Pan American Health Organization, under\r\nSecretaries, heads of specialized agencies and their chief\r\nadvisers, and top aides.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 022 OF 024\r\n\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, FAO, UN, World Animal Health\r\nOrganization, WHO\r\n\r\n6) Terrorism (TERR-5H).\r\n-- Information on plans and intentions of UN bodies and\r\nmember states to respond to or address within UN fora the\r\nworldwide terrorist threat.\r\n-- Structure, plans and key figures of UN counterterrorism\r\nstrategy.\r\n-- Information on plans and activities of UNSC,s four\r\ncounterterrorism sub-bodies.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to address terrorism\r\nby implementing anti-terrorism legislation as called for\r\nunder resolutions, particularly as they relate to tracking\r\nfinancial transactions.\r\n-- Views of member states on US policy toward terrorism.\r\n-- Efforts of member states to support or oppose activities\r\nundertaken by UN specialized agencies such as the\r\nInternational Maritime Organization and the International\r\nCivil Aviation Organization to improve maritime and airline\r\nsecurity.\r\n-- Information on UN support for technical assistance to\r\nmember states to combat terrorism, particularly in Africa.\r\n-- Views of member states about inclusion or exclusion of\r\nterrorism against Israel in counterterrorism efforts and\r\ndefinition of terrorism.\r\n-- (For further requirements, see the NHCD on Terrorism\r\nThreats to US Interests at Home and Abroad, July 13, 2005.)\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: UN\r\n\r\n7) Trafficking, Social, and Women's Issues (DEPS-5H).\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to support or oppose\r\nUS priority to combat trafficking and exploitation of men,\r\nwomen, and children.\r\n-- Member state perceptions of ability of UN Economic and\r\nSocial Council (ECOSOC) to follow through on strategies to\r\nsupport women and children through UN specialized bodies.\r\n-- Information on member efforts to combat organized crime,\r\nnarcotics trafficking, and trafficking in persons.\r\n-- Plans and intentions of member states to address\r\nreproductive issues, including the aims of the EU vis-a-vis\r\nthe US, GRULAC, Arab, and OIC nations.\r\n-- Member state perceptions or plans regarding efforts to\r\nreconcile religious differences worldwide.\r\n-- Information on reforms undertaken within the UN\r\nEducational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)\r\nand future plans of the organization.\r\n-- Member views on education initiatives.\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 023 OF 024\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, OIC, UN\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>H. Intelligence and Security Topics\r\n\r\n1) GRPO can provide text of this issue and related\r\nrequirements.\r\n\r\n2) GRPO can provide text of this issue and related\r\nrequirements.\r\n\r\n3) Foreign Nongovernmental Organizations (FPOL-1).\r\n-- Influence of key UN-affiliated foreign NGOs on UN\r\ndecision-making.\r\n-- Efforts of foreign NGOs to undermine US policy initiatives.\r\n-- Foreign NGO role in, views toward, and influence on UN\r\npolicies and activities on globalization, justice, human\r\nrights, the environment, and\r\nfamily\/women\/children\/reproductive issues.\r\n-- Ability and capacity of foreign NGOs to assist refugees,\r\ndisplaced persons, and victims of disasters through the UNHCR\r\nand WFP.\r\n-- Ability and capacity of foreign NGOs to support the UN\r\nEnvironmental Program or national efforts with environmental\r\nprotection, pollution monitoring, and cleanup efforts.\r\n-- Contacts between foreign NGOs and Secretariat staff that\r\ncould involve sharing of confidential data.\r\n-- Foreign efforts to strip US or foreign NGOs of UN\r\naffiliation and to block US or foreign NGOs seeking UN\r\naffiliation.\r\n-- Efforts by member states-*particularly China, Cuba,\r\nIsrael, Russia, and Islamic countries*-to obtain NGO\r\naffiliation for organizations supporting their policies.\r\n-- Efforts by organizations affiliated with terrorist\r\norganizations or foreign intelligence organizations to obtain\r\nNGO affiliation with the UN.\r\n-- Efforts by the EU through the Arhus convention to place\r\nNGOs on UN bureaus; reactions of member states to those\r\nefforts.\r\n-- Role of NGOs at the Office of the High Commissioner for\r\nRefugees (OHCR), OHCHR, and UNHRC in the Third Committee of\r\nthe UNGA.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, Cuba, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: EU, OIC, UN\r\n\r\n4) Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information\r\nSystems (INFR-5H).\r\n-- Current technical specifications, physical layout, and\r\nplanned upgrades to telecommunications infrastructure and\r\n\r\nSTATE 00080163 024 OF 024\r\n\r\ninformation systems, networks, and technologies used by top\r\nofficials and their support staffs.\r\n-- Details on commercial and private VIP networks used for\r\nofficial communications, to include upgrades, security\r\nmeasures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of V\r\nP N versions used.\r\n-- Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of key officials,\r\nas well as limited distribution telephone numbers\/directories\r\nand public switched networks (PSTN) telephone directories;\r\ndialing numbers for voice, datalink, video teleconferencing,\r\nwireless communications systems, cellular systems, personal\r\ncommunications systems, and wireless facsimiles.\r\n-- Information on hacking or other security incidents\r\ninvolving UN networks.\r\n-- Key personnel and functions of UN entity that maintains UN\r\ncommunications and computer networks.\r\n-- Indications of IO\/IW operations directed against the UN.\r\n-- Information about current and future use of communications\r\nsystems and technologies by officials or organizations,\r\nincluding cellular phone networks, mobile satellite phones,\r\nvery small aperture terminals (VSAT), trunked and mobile\r\nradios, pagers, prepaid calling cards, firewalls, encryption,\r\ninternational connectivity, use of electronic data\r\ninterchange, Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), Worldwide\r\ninteroperability for microwave access (Wi-Max), and cable and\r\nfiber networks.\r\n\r\nCountries: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,\r\nCroatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,\r\nUganda, Vietnam\r\nInternational Organizations: UN\r\nCLINTON<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"