08: Yield
CAMEO 080: Yield, not specified below
DescriptionAll yieldings, concessions not otherwise specified.
Usage NotesThis residual category is not coded except when distinctions among CAMEO 081 through 087 cannot be made. Note that all of the event forms under this category refer to reported yieldings and not to future commitments, agreements or promises.
ExampleA Soviet official suggested concessions last November that U.S. negotiator Paul Nitze believed could lead to an agreement on reducing nuclear missiles in Europe, according to a senator who acted as a go-between at the talks.
ExampleUganda said on Sunday it had paid compensation to 67 elderly British nationals, most of them Asians, for assets they lost when former dictator Idi Amin expelled them 18 years ago.
CAMEO 081: Ease non-force sanctions, not specified below
DescriptionRelax all non-force sanctions, not otherwise specified.
Usage NotesThis event form category contains sub-forms for more detailed coding whenever possible.
ExampleThe Financial Action Task Force, a global body for fighting money laundering, said Friday that it was withdrawing sanctions against Ukraine but recommended they be imposed on the Philippines from mid-March.
ExampleThe European Union failed Wednesday to finalize a deal to renew sanctions against Zimbabwe, with the fate of an EU-Africa summit scheduled for April hanging in the balance.
CAMEO 0811: Ease administrative sanctions
DescriptionRelax or remove administrative sanctions and penalties.
Usage NotesUse this event form to code for removal or relaxation of administrative sanctions such as censorship, curfew, state of emergency and martial law. Cessation of investigations is also coded here.
ExampleYugoslavia eased emergency measures on Wednesday in Kosovo province, the scene of ethnic violence last March, as authorities in Croatia cracked down on Serbian nationalists.
ExampleYugoslavia lifted a night curfew in Kosovo where 28 people have been killed in ethnic riots this year and the province was reported quiet on Sunday.
CAMEO 0812: Ease economic boycotts or sanctions
DescriptionLift, relax or lessen economic sanctions or penalties.
Usage NotesUse this event form to code for state activities that imply easing of limitations to normal economic relations.
ExampleGermany on Wednesday lifted sanctions against gold from South Africa in recognition of the country's moves to abolish apartheid, a government spokesman said.
ExampleThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted its boycott of trade in oil on Namibia, effective since March 31.
CAMEO 0813: Ease civilian boycott or strike
DescriptionLessen or halt general strikes, walkouts, lockouts, withholding of goods or services, or boycotts of any kind.
ExampleThe Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), the umbrella union for primary school teachers, announced Thursday that it has called off a four-day strike after deliberations with the Nigerian government.
CAMEO 082: Ease, stop military blockade
DescriptionLessen or halt use of armed (military, police or security) forces to seal off a territory to prevent exit or entry of goods and/or personnel.
ExampleThe Israeli army lifted Friday a day-old blockade on Palestinian lorries passing through this crossing point between the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state, officials told AFP.
CAMEO 083: Return, release, not specified below
DescriptionAll acts of releasing or returing not otherwise specified.
Usage NotesThis event form category contains sub-forms for more detailed coding whenever possible.
ExampleAccording to a zoo spokesperson, Malaysian authorities have initiated the process of returning the four baby gorillas to Nigeria, amid speculations they were illegally captured in the wild.
CAMEO 0831: Return, release person(s)
DescriptionRelease people from detention or arrest.
Usage NotesUse this event form to code for formal pardons, amnesties, commutations, and exchanges of prisoners.
ExamplePolish police today released the correspondent of the American news agency United Press International (UPI), who was detained for 23 hours and questioned in connection with an inquiry into alleged illegal activities.
ExampleBosnian Serb forces Tuesday let go six French UN peacekeepers held captive inside a UN armoured personnel carrier since Friday, a UN spokesman said.
CAMEO 0832: Return, release property
DescriptionReturn or release previously controlled, confiscated property.
Usage NotesFinancial compensations paid are also coded under this event form.
ExampleFrench maritime authorities today released an impounded ship operated by the Greenpeace ecology movement, port officials said.
ExampleAn Egyptian court released a Lebanese millionaire's assets of nearly 19 million dollars on Saturday six years after they were frozen in a major bank scandal.
CAMEO 084: Receive deployment of peacekeepers
DescriptionAccept, receive peacekeeping forces.
Usage NotesCode here reported deployment of peacekeeping forces; mere promises or agreements by fighting parties or a state to accept deployment of peacekeeping forces in its territories should be coded as CAMEO 037, and commitments to provide peacekeepers should be coded as CAMEO 034. Note that this event form is accompanied by the linked event 'Provide peacekeeping' (CAMEO 074).
ExampleA first patch of Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops arrived in Sierra Leone Tuesday, joining 12 unarmed military observers as the first element of an 800-strong Bangladeshi contingent due here, U.N. officials said.
Example NotesTwo linked events are coded: in the first one - the event coded 084 - Sierra Leone is the source actor, the host country; the 074 event has Bangladesh as the source actor and Sierra Leone as the target of humanitarian aid.
CAMEO 085: Observe truce or ceasefire
DescriptionObserve or declare truce or ceasefire during a military engagement.
Usage NotesCases in which the ceasefire is not unilateral will be coded as two reciprocal events. Also note that demobilization of armed forces and total surrenders are coded elsewhere.
ExampleThe pro-Iranian Hizbollah (Party of God) group declared a unilateral ceasefire on Wednesday in south Lebanon after 12 days of battles with the Syrian-backed Amal militia.
CAMEO 086: Demobilize armed forces
DescriptionReduce or eliminate arms, weapons; discharge soldiers or other armed personnel.
Usage NotesThe source actor for this event is the demobilizing party; the target is the party whom the armed forces in question were formerly operating against.
ExampleOne third of ethnic Albanian guerrillas operating in Macedonia have been demobilized since the August 13 peace accord between Macedonian and ethnic Albanian political parties, two rebel commanders told AFP by phone Sunday.
CAMEO 087: Retreat or surrender militarily
DescriptionRetreat from, yield control of a location or territory.
Usage NotesUse this event form to code for surrender or withdrawal of military and other armed forces such as guerrillas, opposition, or rebel groups.
ExampleFive hundred Ugandan rebels surrendered last week in the eastern town of Soroti following a government offensive in the area, a local official said.
ExampleThe United States speeded up the withdrawal of some invasion forces from Panama on Wednesday, but defence officials cautioned that no deadline had been set for complete removal of the troops.
ExampleBosnian Serbs said on Tuesday their forces had completed their withdrawal from the besieged Bosnian town of Gorazde.