US embassy cable - 03ABUDHABI3103

Disclaimer: This site has been first put up 15 years ago. Since then I would probably do a couple things differently, but because I've noticed this site had been linked from news outlets, PhD theses and peer rewieved papers and because I really hate the concept of "digital dark age" I've decided to put it back up. There's no chance it can produce any harm now.

UAE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY IN NO HURRY TO ALLOW PASSANGER FLIGHTS TO BAGHDAD

null
Diana T Fritz  03/21/2007 12:24:37 PM  From  DB/Inbox:  Search Results

Cable 
Text:                                                                      
                                                                           
      
CONFIDENTIAL

SIPDIS
TELEGRAM                                            July 01, 2003


To:       No Action Addressee                                    

Action:   Unknown                                                

From:     AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 3103 - ROUTINE)         

TAGS:     EAIR, PREL, ECON, ETRD                                 

Captions: None                                                   

Subject:  UAE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY IN NO HURRY TO ALLOW      
          PASSANGER FLIGHTS TO BAGHDAD                           

Ref:      None                                                   
_________________________________________________________________
C O N F I D E N T I A L        ABU DHABI 03103

SIPDIS
CXABU:
    ACTION: ECON 
    INFO:   P/M POL AMB DCM 
Laser1:
    INFO:   FCS 

DISSEMINATION: ECON
CHARGE: PROG

APPROVED: A/DCM: KVAN DE VATE
DRAFTED: ECON:OJOHN
CLEARED: ECON:OJOHN

VZCZCADI542
RR RUEHC RUEHZM RUEHDE RUEANHA RULSDMK RUCPDOC
DE RUEHAD #3103 1821138
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
R 011138Z JUL 03
FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0674
INFO RUEHZM/GCC COLLECTIVE
RUEHDE/AMCONSUL DUBAI 3248
RUEANHA/FAA WASHINGTON DC
RULSDMK/DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHDC
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC

C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 003103 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR NEA/ARP, EB/CBA, NEA/PPR, EB/TRA/OTP/AVP 
USDOC FOR 1000/OC/ 
USDOC FOR 4520/ITA/IEP/ONE 
USDOC FOR 4530/ITA/MAC/ONE/DGUGLIELMI 
4500/ITA/MAC/DAS/WILLIAMSON 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL 06/30/08 
TAGS: EAIR, PREL, ECON, ETRD, TC 
SUBJECT: UAE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY IN NO HURRY TO ALLOW 
PASSANGER FLIGHTS TO BAGHDAD 
 
REF: SECSTATE 181618 
 
1.  (U) Classified by A/DCM Tom Williams, for reasons 1.5 
(B) and (D). 
 
2.  (C) Acting DCM and Econchief met with Mohammed Al- 
Ghaith, the Director General of the UAE General Civil 
Aviation Authority on June 29.  In the course of the 
conversation, Ghaith noted that Emirates Airlines had 
approached him about passenger flights to Baghdad, but he 
had told them that this was premature.  The airport is 
still closed and the security situation is too unstable. 
He noted that there are a number of steps that must be 
taken to reopen the airport and to reestablish passenger 
flights to Baghdad.  In his view, it will be 3 to 6 months 
before he would be comfortable authorizing passenger 
flights to Baghdad.  He also noted that Emirates Airlines 
was not pushing him to speed up the process. 
 
3. (U) In a separate meeting, the MFA asked about the steps 
Gulf Air needs to take to fly passenger flights to Baghdad 
as soon as the airport opens.  Post passed the MFA and 
Civil Aviation Authority the text of Secretary Powell's 
letter to Bahraini Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Mubarak 
al-Khalifa. 
 
Wahba 

Author: Radek "Mrkva" Pilar, Twitter, Mail/XMPP: mrkva twistedThing mrkva.eu

Latest source of this page is cablebrowser-2, released 2011-10-04