Documents / Official release
This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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7. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (IO'S) SUCH AS THE INTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION (IFPA) AND UNICEF, AND INTERNATIONAL DONORS SUCH AS THE GERMAN FOUNDATION, GTZ, OPERATE IN SYRIA BY PERMISSION OBTAINED FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (MFA) AND HAVE FREER REIGN THAN NGO'S, WHO ARE UNDER THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS (MSA) UMBRELLA. THE IFPA SPONSORS SOCIAL PROJECTS SUCH AS A SHELTER FOR FEMALE JUVENILE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF RAPE, A SHELTER FOR MALE JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AND YOUTH CENTERS IN MAJOR SYRIAN CITIES. YOUTH CENTER ACTIVITIES WERE CHALLENGED LAST YEAR, OSTENSIBLY BECAUSE OF OPPOSITION BY RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO SEXUALLY EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED IN SEMINARS. THE CENTERS CURRENTLY SPONSOR CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING PROGRAMS RUN BY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND SOCIAL WORKERS ON ISSUES SUCH AS INTER-GENERATIONAL CONFLICT AND AIDS. THE RED CRESCENT SPONSORS YOUTH GROUPS WHO TRAIN IN FIRST-AID AND SERVE AS A FIRST-AID CORPS AT PUBLIC EVENTS AND ORGANIZE FUND RAISING FAIRS FOR CHILDREN. THESE GROUPS ARE THE CLOSEST THING, BESIDES CHRISTIAN YOUTH GROUPS AND MARCHING BANDS, TO WESTERN TEENS AND SCOUTS. THE INTERNATIONAL BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT, SEEN AS A CHALLENGE TO BA'THIST YOUTH PARTIES, IS NOT ALLOWED IN SYRIA. 8. UNICEF COOPERATES WITH THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH ON RURAL FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS. UNICEF RECEIVES FUNDING AND SUPPORT FROM OTHER MINISTRIES, INCLUDING THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, WITH WHOM UNICEF RECENTLY CO-SPONSORED A SEMINAR ON JUVENILE RIGHTS. A UNICEF EMPLOYEE SITS ON THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION CURRICULUM COMMITTEE AND HAS INTRODUCED COMPONENTS OF GLOBAL EDUCATION AND YOUTH RIGHTS TO THE SYRIAN SCHOOL CURRICULUM. CIVIC EDUCATION IN SYRIA MEANS PARTY IDEOLOGY. NONETHELESS, PROFESSIONALS CIRCUMVENT PARTY TURF BY APPLYING THE NEWEST PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES. A RECENTLY-RETURNED CIVIC EDUCATION IV PARTICIPANT WHO SERVES ON THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATION CURRICULUM COMMITTEE, WORKED IN THAT COMMITTEE TO TEACH PRINCIPLES OF CIVIC SOCIETY IN SUCH MODULES AS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. 9. GTZ PARTIALLY FUNDS THE ALEPPO MUNICIPALITY "PROJECT TO PRESERVE THE OLD CITY OF ALEPPO" TO IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE OLD CITY OF ALEPPO VIA COMMUNITY- UNCLAS SECTION 03 OF 04 DAMASCUS 003515 ## USIA STATE FOR ARN/NEA-EMILLARD, INR USIA FOR PAGNEW, NEA-DSREEBNY, LHALE, CHUNTER; I/GNEA-AWALDEN; E/NEA-MQUINN, JSEDLINS; E/VGN- AOLEARY, ASHIFLETT E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL, SY
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.