02: Appeal

• 020: Appeal, not specified below
• 021: Appeal for information, investigation
• 022: Appeal for policy support
• 023: Appeal for material aid, not specified below
• 0231: Appeal for economic aid
• 0232: Appeal for military aid
• 0233: Appeal for humanitarian aid
• 024: Appeal for protection, peacekeeping
• 025: Appeal for mediation
• 026: Appeal for ceasefire, withdrawal
• 027: Appeal to settle dispute
• 028: Appeal to meet, negotiate

CAMEO 020: Appeal, not specified below.

DescriptionAll requests, proposals, suggestions and appeals not otherwise specified.

Usage NotesThis residual category is not coded except when distinctions among CAMEO 021 through 028 cannot be made. Events coded under this category refer to pleas made either on the source actor's own behalf or on behalf of another party (i.e. the source asks that the target does something either for the source actor or for a third party). Note that this and all the subcategories are distinct from demands and the reported delivery of the requests. Verbs that fall under 'Appeal' include: call or ask for, propose, request, petition, suggest, urge and offer. Note that some verb phrases containing the verb "offer" (e.g., "offer to provide aid") denote concessions or promises and therefore fit under 'Agree' instead.

ExampleKenyan President Daniel arap Moi on Monday urged Uganda to repatriate "all Kenyan criminals hiding there" to face trial, accusing them of killing Kenyan policemen in cross-border raids recently.

CAMEO 021: Appeal for information, investigation

DescriptionAsk for or propose investigation, inspection, or information.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. Reported events of investigations should be coded under CAMEO 09 instead.

ExampleThe Security Council on Tuesday asked U.N. envoys to investigate urgently the feasibility of sending peace-keepers to guard a hydroelectric dam in Croatia.

ExampleEcuador has called on the United States, Argentina, Chile and Brazil to send observers to inspect the site of a frontier clash with Peruvian troops last week, in which two Peruvian soldiers were killed.

Example NotesThere are multiple targets in this example; accordingly, four events are coded, each with different targets.

CAMEO 022: Appeal for policy support

DescriptionAsk for support on a policy, or issue.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. Requests and offers coded under this category refer to non-tangible support on certain policies and/or goals.

ExampleLebanese President Amin Gemayel has asked President Reagan for full United States support for Lebanon's cause, the White House said today.

ExampleCommon market ministers urged leaders of the European Parliament at a meeting here today to approve budget proposals allowing Britain to receive an 850 million dollars refund for 1982.

ExampleArab League Secretary-General Chedli Klibi today urged the European Community to recognise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), which he said would create a favourable climate for peace talks.

CAMEO 023: Appeal for material aid, not specified below

DescriptionAsk for or suggest provision of material assistance not otherwise specified.

Usage NotesThis event form category contains sub-forms for more detailed coding whenever possible. Note that only requests for material aid are coded under this category. Refer to CAMEO 07 for delivery or receipt of such aid and to CAMEO 033 for agreements and promises to provide material aid.

ExampleSoviet officials have asked the United States to provide aid in its food purchases, Soviet television reported on Sunday.

CAMEO 0231: Appeal for economic aid

DescriptionAsk for or suggest economic assistance.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. Requests or offers for loans are also coded in this category.

ExampleRussia and Chinawill ask Asian banks to help finance construction of an $8 billion Trans-Siberian natural gas link to China.

Example NotesBecause of the compound source (Russia and China), two events are coded for this example. In the first event coding, Russia is the source actor and Asian banks is the target actor. In the second event coding, China is the source actor and Asian banks is the target actor.

ExampleSoviet officials have asked the United States to provide credits for grain purchases, Soviet television reported on Sunday.

CAMEO 0232: Appeal for military aid

DescriptionAsk for or suggest military assistance.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act.

ExampleAngola has asked Portugal for military aid, especially instructors for its Soviet- and Cuban-trained armed forces, a Lisbon newspaper said today.

CAMEO 0233: Appeal for humanitarian aid

DescriptionAsk for or suggest humanitarian assistance.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. Requests or offers for food, medicine, and related personnel are all coded under this category. Note that requests or offers for shelter and protection are coded under CAMEO 024 instead.

ExampleRomania has asked the European Community for more food, EC sources said on Thursday.

CAMEO 024: Appeal for protection, peacekeeping

DescriptionAsk for or offer shelter, protection or deployment of peacekeeping forces.

Usage NotesCalls by refugees to be let into the territories of other countries and asylum requests are coded under this category.

ExampleSome 800,000 Iraqi Kurdssought refuge in Germany last month.

ExampleA group of prominent Liberians have written to President George Bush urging him to send U.S. peacekeeping troops to their capital Monrovia.

CAMEO 025: Appeal for mediation

DescriptionSolicit, ask or call for third party/ies to mediate or propose to have mediation.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. Note that proposals by third party/ies to mediate between antagonists are coded under CAMEO 036 instead.

ExamplePresident Daniel Ortega said on Monday he had asked Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo to mediate between Nicaragua and the United States to open the way for dialogue between the two bitterly opposed countries.

ExampleSierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh on Tuesday called for the International Comittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to broker peace talks between his forces and the military government.

CAMEO 026: Appeal for ceasefire, withdrawal

DescriptionAsk for, or offer withdrawal of typically armed forces, or ceasefire and truce.

ExampleThe presidents of Iraq and Egypt called on Tuesday for the withdrawal of Syrian and other foreign forces from Lebanon to end 14 years of civil war there.

ExampleLeaders of the 16-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) called on Wednesday for an immediate ceasefire and elections in war-torn Liberia.

CAMEO 027: Appeal to settle dispute

DescriptionAsk for or propose comprehensive settlement, peace proposal, or resolution.

ExampleIsrael has offered a peace deal to Lebanon and Syria involving an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon within a month, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

CAMEO 028: Appeal to meet or negotiate

DescriptionAsk for, propose, or put forth plans to meet, negotiate, or discuss a situation or an issue.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. This event form is typically initiated by one or more of the conflicting parties.

ExampleEl Salvador on Monday requested an urgent Security Council meeting on Wednesday to deal with what it called violations by Nicaragua of the Central American peace accords.

ExampleYugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic invited ethnic Albanian separatist leader Ibrahim Rugova for peace talks.

ExampleIndonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said on Tuesday he would invite Austria to Jakarta next month to discuss its proposal with the warring factions.