10: Demand
CAMEO 100: Demand, not specified below
DescriptionAll demands and orders not otherwise specified.
Usage NotesThis residual category is not coded except when distinctions among CAMEO 101 through 109 cannot be made. CAMEO 100 through 109 refer to various orders, commands, and decrees rather than mere requests, suggestions, or appeals, which should be coded under CAMEO 02.
ExamplePoland's parliament has demanded an immediate admission by Moscow that Soviet NKVD security forces murdered more than 15,000 captive Polish officers during World War Two.
CAMEO Code 101: Demand information, investigation
DescriptionRequire, demand information or investigation.
ExampleFrench President Jacques Chirac issued a stern reminder Saturday to Iraq that it must cooperate fully with UN inspectors probing suspect sites for weapons of mass destruction.
ExampleAn Argentine judge has ordered former president Carlos Menem to appear October 16 for questioning in an investigation of illegal arms sales to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s, court sources said Wednesday.
CAMEO 102: Demand policy support
DescriptionRequire, demand policy (non-tangible) support.
ExampleGreece bluntly demanded that its European Community partners refuse to recognize the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, on Greece's northern border, as long as it keeps that name.
ExamplePalestinians officials demanded Friday that the United States match the European Union's support for Palestinian statehood.
CAMEO 103: Demand aid
DescriptionRequire, demand assistance, (material) support or shelter.
Usage NotesRefugee flows should also be coded here; the group that flees is the source actor, and the country people flee into is the target actor.
ExampleThe Third World Water Forum concluded on Saturday that the US and other developed nations must allocate greater financial resources to help with the battle against the global water and sanitation crisis.
CAMEO 104: Demand protection, peacekeeping.
DescriptionRequire, demand protection in form of military, police, or peacekeeping monitors/observers.
ExampleEthnic Albanians in south Serbia are demanding a U.N. military presence to protect them against a heavily armed ruling Serb minority and prevent a Bosnia-style civil war, but some foreign monitors are skeptical.
ExampleThe Red Cross operating in Iraq said US and British forces must ensure security to allow emergency water, food and medical supplies to reach the needy.
Example NotesTwo events with different target actors are coded in this example.
CAMEO 105: Demand mediation
DescriptionRequire or order a third party to mediate a conflict.
Usage NotesThis event form is a verbal act. It specifically refers to demands for mediation initiated by any parties other than the proposed mediator(s).
ExampleEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak said here Wednesday that the US must be ready to mediate between Israelis and Palestinians as soon as the Israeli elections of January 28 are finalized.
CAMEO 106: Demand withdrawal
DescriptionRequire, demand withdrawal from an area.
Usage NotesThis event form typically applies to demands for withdrawal of armed forces.
ExampleEuropean Community foreign ministers demanded the withdrawal of Yugoslav federal forces from Bosnia-Herzogovina on Monday calling them an occupying army, diplomats quoted an EC declaration as saying.
CAMEO 107: Demand ceasefire
DescriptionRequire, demand halting of military engagement.
Usage NotesThis event form can be initiated by both the fighting parties and other third parties.
ExampleBosnian Serbs demanded a truce with Moslem forces in east Bosnia before allowing U.N. aid convoys to feed starving Moslem civilians in the region.
CAMEO 108: Demand meeting, negotiation
DescriptionRequire, order party(ies) to meet, negotiate.
Usage NotesThis event form can be initiated by either adversaries or other third parties.
ExampleYugoslavia on Tuesday demanded a meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss Croatia's military advance into the Serb-held Krajina region, describing it as "a serious challenge to the world community."
CAMEO 109: Demand rights
DescriptionRequire, demand civil, political, cultural, socio-economic or human rights in general for persons or groups.
ExampleIran has formally demanded compensation from Turkey for the Iranian victims of an armed attack on a train in southeast Turkey, the Iranian news agency IRNA said on Thursday.
ExampleFormer Socialist prime minister Andreas Papandreou demanded immediate elections after a special court cleared him of all charges in Greece's biggest corruption trial this century.