DIPLOMACY

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 DIPLOMACY
Christian Cambon

Christian Cambon, senator from the center-right UMP party and president of the France-Morocco friendship group in the Senate, will lead a parliamentary delegation to Rabat between Sept. (...) [73 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 DIPLOMACY
Pierre Lellouche

Pierre Lellouche, France’s junior minister for European affairs, was in Tripoli on Sept. (...) [70 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 DIPLOMACY
Mohamed Siala

Mohamed Siala, deputy Libyan foreign minister, and Abdulhafez Zlitni, who is in charge of economic planning and finance, attended the inauguration of a new Libyan Chinese Business Council in Beijing on Aug. (...) [87 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Charles Edward Kiamie

Charles Edward Kiamie, external affairs director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI which is linked to the State Department), will be in Algiers between July 28-30 to meet with Algerian officials. (...) [69 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Dai Bingguo

Dai Bingguo, China’s national security adviser and a key figure in Hu Jintao’s government, will be in Algiers until July 22. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Talal Belrhiti

Talal Belrhiti has joined the Moffett Group, a lobbying concern based in Washington and founded by Anthony Moffett that has emerged as a mainstay in Morocco’s lobbying effort on Capitol Hill (MC 924 ). (...) [81 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Mohand Ameziane Si Mahand

Mohand Ameziane Si Mahand, defense attache at the Algerian embassy in Paris, has been promoted to the rank of general, according to our sources. (...) [71 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Lee Sang-deuk

Lee Sang-deuk, a South Korean MP and elder brother of president Lee Myung-bak, will be in Libya until the end of the week and is due to meet with Muammar Kadhafi. (...) [67 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao

Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao will represent Tripoli before a Swiss-Libyan arbitration panel examining the Hannibal Kadhafi affair. (...) [73 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Jean-Pierre Chevenement

Jean-Pierre Chevenement could shortly undertake a mission for the French government to smooth over Franco-Algerian relations. (...) [79 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Jose Luis Zapatero

Jose Luis Zapatero was due to visit Muammer Kadhafi in Tripoli on June 24. (...) [83 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Horst Wolfram Kerll

Horst Wolfram Kerll, the German ambassador to Tunisia, tossed a sour note into the inauguration of an oxygen and nitrogen plant built by Linde, near Tunis on June 16. (...) [78 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°929 - 10/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Anne Grillo

Anne Grillo, first secretary at the French embassy in Morocco, is leaving her post to become French consul-general in Barcelona. (...) [78 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°929 - 10/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Hope Masters

Hope Masters, director of the Afro-American and Christian Leon Sullivan Foundation, travelled to Dakhla, in Western Sahara, on June 10 with other members of the foundation. (...) [79 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°928 - 03/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Lalla Joumala

Lalla Joumala, a cousin of Morocco’s king and current Moroccan ambassador to London, has turned her mind to business matters. (...) [69 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°927 - 27/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Abdelaziz Bouteflika is scheduled to take part in the Africa-France summit meeting in Nice on May 31 and June 1. (...) [84 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°927 - 27/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Tarek Ben Ammar

Tarek Ben Ammar appears to have lost his bet to bundle Muammer Kadhafi, Silvio Berlusconi, Tunis and Algiers together in a television project in North Africa. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°926 - 20/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Jean Milhau

Jean Milhau, a French senator, has once again raised the issue of French property in Algeria that is occupied by local inhabitants. (...) [77 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°925 - 13/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Adrianus Koetsenruijter

Adrianus Koetsenruijter, ?the European Union’s official envoy to Libya (but who resides in Tunis), may well head the new European Commission office opening in coming weeks in Tripoli. (...) [79 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°925 - 13/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Abdelmonem Al Houni

Abdelmonem Al Houni, Libya’s representative to the Arab League, seems to have ruffled some feathers in the organization. (...) [79 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 DIPLOMACY
Bruno Costantini

Bruno Costantini, an infantry lieutenant colonel, took up his post as military attache at the French embassy in Libya in August. (...) [78 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 DIPLOMACY
Natalie Brown

Natalie Brown took over as number two in the American embassy in Tunis in July. (...) [81 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 DIPLOMACY
Philippe de Fontaine Vive

Philippe de Fontaine Vive could well become the boss of a future Euro-Mediterranean bank. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi will travel to Algiers this autumn for what could be called an exercise in “helicopter diplomacy. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
The Israeli Navy

The Israeli Navy was walking on eggs to divert the freighter Amalthea chartered by Saif El Islam Kadhafi to run the Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip. (...) [89 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Driss El Yazami

Driss El Yazami, a Fes-born Moroccan, was awarded France's Legion d'Honneur on July 14. (...) [81 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Hassan Aghmari

Hassan Aghmari, the official in charge of elections at Morocco's interior ministry, is currently touring a number of big American cities (including Washington) to size up the electronic voting system in the United States. (...) [69 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Martyn Roper

Martyn Roper is to succeed Andrew Henderson as British ambassador to Algeria. (...) [83 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 DIPLOMACY
Vincenzo Schioppa

Vincenzo Schioppa will take over from Francesco Paolo Trupiano in the key post of Italian ambassador to Tripoli. (...) [80 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Abbas El Fassi

Abbas El Fassi, Morocco’s prime minister, will be in Paris on July 2 to meet with Laurence Parisot, head of the Medef employers federation. (...) [74 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Gunther Oettinger

Gunther Oettinger, the European Union’s energy commissioner, will visit Algiers on June 20 to attend a ministerial conference on bringing Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia into Europe’s electricity market. (...) [79 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Ahmed Aoun

Ahmed Aoun, a Libyan Army general who sees to the procurement of major weapons systems, was in Paris for the Eurosatory armements show that opened its doors on June 15. (...) [67 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°929 - 10/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Farah Pandith

Farah Pandith, special representative for the Moslem community (she answers to secretary of state Hillary Clinton) held talks in Rabat this week with Moroccan foreign minister Taieb Fassi Fihri. (...) [70 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°928 - 03/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Abdelati El Obeidi

Abdelati El Obeidi, Libya’s deputy foreign minister, is to be named ambassador to Tunis, according to our sources. (...) [71 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°928 - 03/06/2010 DIPLOMACY
Gerhard Knies

Gerhard Knies, president of the Desertec Foundation, is due to visit Tunisia in July. (...) [70 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°927 - 27/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Bernard Kouchner

Bernard Kouchner has responded to a written question from a French senator, Jean-Pierre Sueur, concerning access to archives in Algeria before that country’s independence. (...) [75 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°926 - 20/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Abdellatif Mazouz

Abdellatif Mazouz, Morocco’s foreign trade minister, will work to woo French SMEs that aren’t already active in Morocco during the Planete PME fair in Paris on June 15. (...) [74 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°926 - 20/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Adel Zawi

Adel Zawi and Adel Ibrahim, two Libyan nationals, were arrested in Germany on May 13, according to our sources. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°925 - 13/05/2010 DIPLOMACY
Lalla Joumala

Lalla Joumala, a cousin of king Mohammed VI and Morocco’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, is making overtures to the Jewish community in Britain concerning the Western Sahara issue. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°924 - 29/04/2010 DIPLOMACY
Adrianus Koetsenruiter

Adrianus Koetsenruiter, chief of the European Union's delegation in Tunis, is preparing for a forthcoming EU-Tunisia association meeting scheduled for May 11. (...) [75 words] [$1.8]

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