11: Disapprove

CAMEO 110: Disapprove, not specified below

DescriptionAll disapprovals, objections and complaints not otherwise specified.

Usage NotesThis residual category is not coded except when distinctions among CAMEO 111 through 114 cannot be made.

ExampleOn Tuesday, Nigerian junior foreign minister Dubem Oniya summoned Niger's ambassador Brah Mohamane to complain of inaction over the gangs.

CAMEO 111: Criticize or denounce

DescriptionCondemn, decry a policy or an action; defame, denigrate the responsible party(ies).

ExampleAlbania on Friday denounced as an ugly crime Yugoslavia's suppression of ethnic Albanian unrest in the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo.

CAMEO 112: Accuse

DescriptionCharge, blame, incriminate.

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

ExampleZimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe today accused the United States of restoring the blackmail in the negotiations on independence for Namibia.

CAMEO 114: Rally opposition against

DescriptionMobilize other parties against the target.

Usage NotesThis event form is typically, though not exclusively, a verbal act. Use this event form to code instances where one party (the source) solicits third parties to express disapproval of, protest against, or punish another party (the target). Note that only diplomatic solicitations - not military mobilizations - should be coded here.

ExampleAn official Syrian newspaper called Thursday on Arabs to unite and "mobilize" against Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon, who has vowed not to return the Golan Heights to Syria if he is elected prime minister February 4.

ExampleArchbishop Desmond Tutu on Sunday called for sanctions against Nigeria in the wake of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

CAMEO 114: Complain officially

DescriptionWritten and institutionalized protests and appeals, and all petition drives and recalls.

ExampleYugoslavia lodged an official protest with Albania today, charging its neighbor with supporting dissidents here in what is said was tantamount to inciting revolution.

ExampleLebanon complained to the United Nations on Tuesday over two Israeli air raids last Friday in which it said 20 people were killed or wounded.