CERES News Digest - Week2, Vol.3, Sept.9-13

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Country News DigestVol.3, Issue #2

09/09/13-09/13/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

Contributors:-Risa Chubinsky-Glyn Cozart-Joseph Gates-Tomas Hyde-Katharine Quinn-Judge

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2/6

Country News DigestA US delegation scheduledto arrive in Baku September9 cancelled their visit at the

Azerbaijan

Georgia

RussiaAliyev regimes request. Te delegation had planned toobserve preparations or October 9 presidential elections.Meanwhile, a CIS monitoring mission is reported to haveannounced this week that preparations or the electionare thus ar in accordance with established norms.

On September 9 RussianForeign Minister SergeiLavrov submitted a planor disarmament o chemical weapons to the Syriangovernment, who accepted the proposal the ollowingday. Lavrov and US Secretary o State John Kerry begantalks on the Russian plan in Geneva on September 12.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

urkey

Te EU is rejectingRussian pressure to deterUkraine and other ormerSoviet republics rom deepening trade ties with Europe.European Commission President Barroso said the EUwould not turn its back on Eastern Europe. Ukrainianocials plan to strengthen ties with the EU and willcontinue seeking a trade deal. Te EU continues to assertthat democratic progress is critical to success o Ukrainestrade agreement.

Rosnet CEO Igor Sechinand President Lukashenkamet Wednesday. Sechinwants Rosnet to be Belaruss sole supplier o oil, and haspromised to satisy in ull all o the countrys oil needs.Sechin also oered to be an inormal supervisor o thetwo countries economic relations and said that Russiawill not cut down on oil deliveries as sharply as originallyplanned.

Russias top health ocial,Gennady Onishenko,announced an embargoon Moldovan wines on uesday, citing poor qualitycontrol. Moldovas Economy Minister called the banpolitically motivated, while Prime Minister IurieLeanca suggested it contradicted WO obligations.Russia accounted or over 21% o Moldovas totalexports last year, according to the CIA actbook.

Georgian president MikheilSaakashvili climbed 5,047meters (16,558 eet) to the

top o Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus Mountains. Hisclimbing group included Russias Andrei Illarionov andGeorgian opposition gure Gogi Khachidze. Despite badweather, the group eventually reached the summit o themountain, where they planted a Georgian fag.

Armenian Prime Ministerigran Sargsyan stateduesday that Armenia

wishes to gain observer status in the Shanghai CooperationOrganization (SCO). Sargsyans Chinese counterpart LiKeqiang is anticipated to address the issue o observerstatus or Yerevan at the SCO summit in Bishkek.

A 22-year-old man, AhmetAtakan, was killed earlierthis week during an anti-

government protest in the city o Antakya, located insouthern urkey. Te exact cause o his death is currentlydisputed by authorities and witnesses, thereby heighteningunrest and sparking additional demonstrations across thecountry.

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Country News DigestTe SCO summit tookplace in Bishkek Fridaywith heads o state rom

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

China and the ve Central Asian countries o the ormerUSSR. Iran, India, and Aghanistan were present asobservers. Tis ollowed the signing o a $3 billionset o economic deals between China and Kyrgyzstanon Wednesday, as well as sti negotiations to increaseKyrgyzstani shares in the part-Canadian Kumtor mine.

Pakistan has announceda plan to release a highranking member o thealiban rom prison in order to aid the precariouspeace process in Aghanistan. Experts diverge on theirassessments o Pakistans action, with some accepting itas an act o good will towards Aghanistan and otherscriticizing it as an attempt by Pakistani security orces togain infuence in the country.

Mongolia

IranIn recent weeks IranianPresident Hassan Rouhaniand US President BarackObama have exchanged private letters regarding eventsin Syria. Both governments have suggested ace-to-acemeetings regarding Irans nuclear program at the UNGeneral Assembly on September 24. Tese would be therst ace-to-ace meetings between the two nations in 34years.

Ater deepening energyties with China last week,urkmenistan spent thisweek conducting energy talks with another Pacicpower: Japan. Te Memorandum o Understanding onEnergy Cooperation, signed by the respective heads ostate o urkmenistan and Japan, pledges to strengthenthe relationship between the two countries in the yearsto come.

Ater adding threeMongolian businessmento its board, Rio intoapproved the promotion o Craig Kinnel to the positiono president and chie executive. Te appointmentis intended to help resolve the dispute between theMongolian government and Rio into on how to und avital expansion to the Oyu olgoi mine.

Ater attending the G20summit in St. Petersburg,Chinese president Xi

Jinping stopped in Astana to sign $30 billion worth oenergy deals ahead o the SCO summit in Bishkek onFriday. Te deals oresee Chinas acquisition o sharesin Kazakhstans giant oshore oil acility Kashagan,which began production on Wednesday.

On uesday the Uniono Reormist Forceso ajikistan (URF)

nominated its candidate or president in Novemberselections. Oynihol Bobonazarova, a ormer lawyerand human rights activitst, will need the signatures ove percent o ajik voters to successully register hercandidacy or president. URF, a coalition o variousopposition parties, agreed several months ago to put ortha single candidate to challenge President Rahmon.

Chinas Xi Jinping met withIslam Karimov in ashkenton Monday, where the two

signed a series o agreements worth $15 billion. Te dealslargely involve Chinese use o Uzbekistans oil, gas, anduranium reserves. Karimov praised the two countrieseconomic ties, noting that China had never imposedpolitical conditions on aid or investment. Xi announcedthat the volume o two-way trade should nearly double to$5 billion by 2017.

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4/6

Country News DigestPresident Plevneliev oBulgaria visited Estoniato discuss EU politics

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republicand urther economic collaboration. His visit includeddiscussing the Eastern Partnership, Balkan security, andEstonian support or Bulgarias bid to join the Schengenzone and the OECD. Estonia and Bulgaria will co-preside over the EU presidency in 2018.

Tis week in a joint Czech-Slovak anti-corruptionprobe, Czech authoritiesdetained 12 yet-unnamed soccer players and summoned20 others or questioning or match-xing, bribery, andillegal betting on soccer games. Te arrests are a result oan 11-month long investigation. Convicted players ace aban o up to ve years.

Latvia

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Hungary

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Te Slovak governmentaces controversy over itsdecision to purchase a49% stake in gas supplier SPP. While the state claims thepurchase is to give the state control over gas prices, criticsare concerned that documents about the purchase wereprepared by the nancial group in charge o selling the stakeand question the deals motivation. Te Economy Ministryclaims these concerns stem rom a misunderstanding.

wo people were arrestedor grati related to thewedding o Prime MinisterViktor Orbns daughter to businessman Istvan iborcz.Te grati, Royal Wedding 2013, was meant tocomment on speculation that public unds were used topay or event preparations.

Prime Minister Ponta urgedlawmakers to reject plansto drop the Rosia Montanamine project ater a week o protests. More than 8,000protesters spoke out against this project because o the useo cyanide in gold mining and the potential consequencesto the environment. Te parliament could pass the billas early as November, which would give the state a 25%stake in the mine.

On September 5-6 NAOSecretary General AndersRasmussen visited with the

Lithuanian President Dalia Grubauskaite and othersenior Lithuanian ocials in Vilnius to discuss increasedNAO-EU cooperation. Tese meetings were held inpreparation or the meeting o the European Council onSecurity and Deense in December. Lithuania currentlyholds the Presidency o the European Council.

Te president o theEuropean Unions centralbank lauded Latvia this

week, citing it as an economic role model to the resto the EU. In order to overcome its 2008 recession,Latvia embraced austerity measures and is now theastest growing country in the region. Te economicpraise comes as Latvia awaits entry into the Eurozoneat the beginning o 2014.

A our day series o laborunion protests started byOPZZ, the largest Polish

labor union, kicked o on Wednesday, opposing layosstemming rom the weakened Polish economy, as wellas last weeks revisions to the Polish pension system.Te protests also highlight growing discontent with thecountrys current leadership.

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5/6

Country News DigestPrime Minister Oresharskiwas in China romSeptember 8-12 to discuss

Bulgaria

Albania

CroatiaChinese/Bulgarian economic collaboration. Oresharskihopes Bulgarian ood, industry and pharmaceuticalexports to China will increase, and that Chinese businessparticipants will continue to invest in inrastructuraldevelopment in Bulgarian local businesses.

Croatia will receive over275,000 euros in EU aidto help recover rom severefooding in 2012. Tis aid is part o a larger 14.6 millioneuro package to Croatia, Austria, and Slovenia, withSlovenia receiving the bulk o the unds.

Serbia

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Te European Parliamentand the MontenegrinMinistry o Foreign Aairsannounced that Montenegro has not been in violationo the visa-ree regime between Montenegro and theSchengen zone. Te EU has launched an investigationinto the high number o asylum seekers rom the Balkans,but has determined that the government o Montenegrohas airly implemented the criteria or urther visaliberalization with the EU.

Ater imposing steeprestrictions on each othersimports last week, Kosovoand Macedonia escalated their trade war this week.Skopje began charging Kosovan citizens and vehicles toenter Macedonia on Sunday. Prishtina responded with anannouncement o a complete embargo on all Macedonianimports.

Tis week Slovenialiquidated Factor Bankaand Probanka, two banksthat comprise about 4.5% o the countrys banking sector.Although many eared a run on banks, analysts haveencountered no evidence o one in the days ollowing theliquidations. Slovenias decision to liquidate the bankscomes as its banking sector aces an estimated $9.9 billionin bad loans.

Te Albanian Parliamentmet Monday or the frsttime since the socialist

partys victory in June elections. Prime Minister electEdi Rama, who replaces conservative Sali Berisha,allegedly prompted the latter to storm out during aspeech on Tursday in which he laid out prioritiesor his administration. Rama has cited tacklingcorruption and EU accession as key objectives.

As Serbia plans to begintalks to join the EuropeanUnion, the country has

decided to drop its opposition to an international callingcode or Kosovo. Te Serbian government has alsourged Serbs living in Kosovo to vote in local Novemberelections. Tese acts are part o Serbias ongoing attemptto smooth relations with Kosovo.

Macedonia and Greececontinue their longstandingdebate over the ormers

ocial name. UN mediator Matthew Nimetz visitedboth countries this week to continue talks, although noconclusion was reached. Greece objected to Nimetzsproposal o the name Upper Democracy o Macedonia,due to the act that Upper did not appear immediatelybeore the countrys name.

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