CERES News Digest - Week3, Vol.3, Sept. 16-20

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Country News DigestVol.3, Issue #3

09/16/13-09/20/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

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

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2/6

Country News DigestEight members othe opposition youthmovement NIDA were

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiacharged with organizing mass disorder. Meanwhile,opposition journalist Perviz Hashimli was jailed uesdayon charges o rearm and contraband possession. HumanRights Watch has accused the Aliyev regime o clampingdown on opposition ahead o Octobers elections.

According to a Gallup pollreleased Wednesday, moreAmericans view Russia asan unriendly rather than riendly nation or the rsttime in teen years, with 50% viewing Russia as a USenemy. Te poll suggests Russias recent oreign policytowards Syria, the Edward Snowden asylum case, andRussias LGB policy are actors in this trend.

Armenia

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urkey

Ukrainian company NadraYuzivska has signed anoperating agreement withRoyal Dutch Shell to start work at the Yuzivska shale gaseld. Te terms o the tender mean that Shell will investaround $500 million in prospecting, and an estimated$10 billion in industrial development and installation oinrastructure at 15 exploration wells. Te project expectsliberated gas as early as late 2014.

Despite Rosnet CEOIgor Sechins previousassurances, Russia hasannounced it will cut oil ow to Belarus by 42% in the4th quarter this year, down rom 5.3 million tons to 3.1million. Oil shipments will also be cut by 233,000 tons inSeptember because o pipeline repairs. Tis news ollowsBelaruss statement that it still will not release UralkaliCEO Baumgertner rom custody.

PACE chairman Jean-Claude Mignon madea three-day visit toMoldova this week, during which he praised thecountrys aspirations or European integration, butnoted that eorts to meet European standards ohuman rights and democratic development shouldbe redoubled. Moldova and the EU are expected tosign an Association Agreement in November.

Georgian Deense MinisterIrakli Alasania made atrip to Aghanistan to

visit Georgian troops stationed in the country. He rstvisited Camp Leatherneck, a U.S. Marine Corps base inWashir district, then headed to a combat base in MusaQala. Currently, Georgia is the largest non-NAO troopcontributor to the NAO-led International SecurityAssistance Force.

Tis week the Armeniangovernment approved apreliminary roadmap to

membership in a Russian-led Customs Union withKazakhstan and Belarus. A cabinet meeting o theArmenian Economics Ministry announced that sevenworking groups will be established rom the Russian andArmenian governments to negotiate urther regardingCustoms Union membership.

On Monday, a Syrian planewas shot down by a urkishghter jet. Te plane had

strayed more than a mile into urkish airspace despitewarnings to turn back, ater which it crashed withinSyrian borders. No conrmed news has been released onthe status o the planes crew. Te incident has increasedthe already heightened tension between the two countries,stemming rom urkeys support o Syrian rebel groups.

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Country News DigestKyrgyzstans parliamentdebated a proposedlaw regarding non-

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Kazakhstan

governmental organizations this week. Te law states thatorganizations taking part in political activity would belabeled oreign agents. Human rights groups say the lawis a near copy o the one passed in Russia last year, andails to dene political activity in sufciently narrow orclear terms.

Te aliban killed a seniorAghan election ofcialon Wednesday, in whatis reportedly the rst attack by insurgents on a seniorIndependent Election Commission member in years.Te aliban used witter to claim responsibility orthe attack. Te killing came just days ater the murdero Helmands highest ranking emale police ofcer, orwhich no organization has claimed responsibility.

Mongolia

IranOn Wednesday Iranianauthorities released11 political prisoners,including prominent human rights lawyer and activistNasrin Sotoudeh. Sources close to Iranian PresidentHassan Rouhani say these releases are aimed atdemonstrating goodwill towards the internationalcommunity ahead o Rouhanis anticipated visit to theUS or the UN General Assembly next week.

Tis week urkmenistanhosted an internationalenergy orum in itscapital, Ashgabat. Organized by urkmenistans EnergyDepartment and Chamber o Commerce and Energy,the orum hosted energy companies rom 20 countries.

As the MongolianParliament discussedamendments to itsenvironmental legislation, a protest ormed outside theGovernment Palace in downtown Ulaanbaatar. When theauthorities attempted to disperse the crowd, a protesterred a shot into the air. Agents immediately arrested theman and searched the other protesters, uncovering threeguns, nine grenades, and various other explosives.

Kazakhstan condemnedthe use o chemicalweaponry in Syria, and

expressed support or a Security Council resolutionon the destruction o the weapons. Astana also calledor an international conerence to discuss possibleresolutions to the conict.

On Saturday ChinesePresident Xi Jinpingand ajik President

Emomali Rahmon signed an agreement to allow or theconstruction o a natural gas pipeline through ajikistanto China. ajikistan will act as a transit state or theCentral Asia-China pipeline, which will transport gasrom urkmenistan to China and attract up to $3 millionworth o Chinese direct investment in ajikistan.

Uzbekistan will allowan International LaborOrganization mission to

monitor this years cotton harvest, which began thisweek. Uzbekistan, the worlds second-largest exportero cotton and the th-largest producer, relies on asystem o compulsory labor or its harvests. Humanrights activists have voiced concerns that monitorsactivities may be restricted by ofcials.

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4/6

Country News DigestEconomy MinisterRaasuke has proposed aplan to move shares o

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Czech Republicstate-owned companies into a new holding company inorder to create clearer investment policies. A recent auditound that most state-owned companies lacked long-term strategic planning. Raasuke hopes this plan will helpto better manage the companies and increase investment.

On September 17 theUSs Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory wasawarded a $45 million contract to build a high-poweredresearch laser or the EUs Extreme Light InrastructuresBeamlines acility near Prague. Te laser will be usedor scientic research in medical imaging, particleacceleration, quantum physics and homeland security.

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Te Finance Ministry isreporting that Slovakiaseconomy will grow asterthan projected this year, in part because o improvementsin the euro region and increased domestic householdspending. Te 2013 growth orecast is now at 0.8 percent.Tis growth will help Slovakia meet its target o reducingscal shortall below the EU limit o 3 percent o GDP,bringing Slovakia in line with international standards.

Te Hungarian governmentapproved an amendment tothe constitution in responseto international criticism that the government has becomemore anti-democratic. Te amendment tweaked processesor political media campaigns, judicial independence, andreligious reedom. However, the EU, USA, and humanrights groups have called the changes largely cosmetic,noting that they undermine EU norms and contradict theprinciple o rule o law.

Cristian Socol, Advisoron macroeconomic issuesor Prime Minister Ponta,announced that the government will be creating an agencyto attract investments to Romania. Te agency will ocuson initiating strategic partnerships in dierent sectorsand will closely monitor relationships with companiesalready investing in Romania. Te agency will also helpreduce bureaucratic barriers acing oreign businessesoperating locally.

In protest against Russiasincreased supplementaryborder checks o cars and

trucks carrying imports rom Lithuania, LithuanianForeign Minister Linas Linkevicius has summonedits Russian ambassador to Vilnius and called upon EUleadership to condemn the increased checks. Due to thepolicy change, Lithuanian transport rms and tradersare losing an estimated two million euros per day.

As Latvia nears accessionto the Eurozone in 2014,a poll has revealed that

Latvians are predominantly against adopting theEuro as its currency. Despite a government-led pro-Euro campaign, 53% o Latvians oppose joining theEurozone, while only 22% avor it, according to thepoll.

Poland has decided to keepplans or an IPO o the railcargo arm o the national

rail Polskie Koleje Panstwowe SA, as well as Energa SA,the ourth largest national utility. Te IPO prospectuswill likely be approved by October 15, meaning that thecompanies could be listed on the stock exchange by theend o the year. While the plan will bring in a signicantamount o money or the government, the reasury willstill control 50% o the general meetings voting power.

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5/6

Country News DigestSyrian reugees areooding into Bulgaria,creating unsae conditions

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiain its overcrowded accommodation centers. Bulgariareceived around 3,000 asylum applications in August.Te government has vowed to address the deterioratingconditions, and is accepting technical assistance rom theUNHCR to process reugee claims more quickly.

Croatian Prime MinisterZoran Milanovic metwith Macedonian PrimeMinister Nikola Gruevski this week in Zagreb to voiceCroatian support or Macedonias entrance into theEU. Te two ofcials also discussed urther economiccooperation between their respective countries.

Serbia

Macedonia

Montenegrin ForeignMinister Igor Luki hasproposed orming theWestern Balkans Six and a joint Balkan police. Te groupwould include Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia,Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and would seek toincrease regional cooperation, simpliy border crossingsand ght organized crime. Regional leaders will discussthe initiative at the end o September.

Kosovos Prime Ministerwelcomed uesdaysacquittal o ten ormer

KLA ghters on charges o war crimes, saying the verdictdemonstrated the cleanness o the Kosovo LiberationArmys war. Te prosecution, headed by the EU Rule oLaw Mission, has not ruled out an appeal. Meanwhile,a EULEX member was shot dead Tursday in northKosovo, in what some have termed an attempt todestabalize the region ahead o November elections.

Slovenia has begunconstructing its rst mosquethis week. Although theinitial request or the mosques construction was issued in1969, it was not built until now due to popular resistanceand issues involving land availability. Slovenia is home toapproximately 47,000 Muslims.

EU Commissionpresident Jose ManuelBarroso announced

Tuesday that Albania could achieve EU candidatestatus later this year. Experts cite the countrystermination of parliamentary immunity and adoptionof an administrative courts law as examples ofprogress towards EU eligibility. However, organizedcrime and corruption reportedly remain obstacles.

On uesday, the Serbiangovernment announced theappointment o Dominique

Strauss-Kahn to the post o Economic Adviser. Strauss-Kahn was head o the International Monetary Fundrom 2007 until 2011, when he resigned in the midst oa series o sexual scandals. First Deputy Prime MinisterAleksandar Vucic has deended the choice, saying thatStrauss-Kahns checkered personal past has no bearingon his proessional knowledge and expertise.

Seventeen people werearrested in Macedoniathis week or selling state

intelligence to oreign governments and or threatening toblackmail individuals by releasing classied inormation.Among those arrested are acting and ormer intelligenceemployees, a parliamentary ofcer, police and deenseofcials, and a journalist. Te Macedonian police havebeen investigating the case or two years and are still onthe hunt or three more suspects.

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Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

On Monday ormerBosnian prison campguard Almaz Nezirovic wasapproved or extradition rom Virginia to Bosnia andHerzegovina, where he is charged with the torture oSerbian civilian prisoners in 1992. Nezirovics extraditioncase is currently pending approval rom the US StateDepartment.

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