CERES News Digest: Issue #11

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Country News DigestProposals rom Azerbaijanwere added to the nalresolution o NAOs

Azerbaijan

Georgia

RussiaParliamentary Assembly. Te Caspian Sea - SouthCaucasus corridor had been excluded rom the discussionon troop and equipment withdrawal rom Aghanistanuntil Azerbaijan indicated its desire to include its brancho the supply route in the withdrawal plans.

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U.S. President BarackObama on uesdayaccepted an invitation to

visit Russia rom Russian President Vladimir Putin, ata date to be agreed upon in uture. During the phoneconversation, President Putin congratulated PresidentObama on his re-election and expressed hope that thetwo countries could continue to cooperate constructively.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Turkey

Ukraine is planning onreducing its imports oRussian gas by more than aquarter o its current level. Ukraine is trying to lower itsdependence on Russia by drawing on its own domesticsources and has signed a contract with Germanys RWEor alternative gas shipments, which could provide about5 bcm o gas in 2013.

wo low-prole oppositiongures, Andrei Gaidukovand Ilya Bogdanov, havebeen arrested in Belarus and accused o high-treason.Both men were members o the edgling BelarusianChristian Democratic Party but were not among highlyinuential members, according to reports. Te maximumsentence or a high-treason conviction is 15 years inprison.

A resolution calling or theresignation o rst deputyspeaker o parliament andmember o the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc ailed topass a vote in parliament on Tursday. Communist Partydeputy Grigore Petrenc called or the resolution claim-ing that Plahotnius shady business dealings stained thereputation o the Parliament and the Moldovan state.

NAO and the EuropeanUnion expressed concernover political rits in

Georgia since the countrys parliamentary electionsin October. During the visit o President Saakashviliand Prime Minister Ivanishvili to Brussels this week,European leaders congratulated them on the peaceultransition but warned against politically motivated arrestsand pressure on public broadcasting networks.

Hrant Bagratyan, MP romthe opposition ArmenianNational Congress (ANC),

reused to comment on negotiations between the ANCand the Prosperous Armenia party (PAP), but mentionedormer president Levon er-Petrosyan as a possiblepresidential candidate or the 2013 elections. igranSargsyan, Armenian prime minister and deputy chairmano the ruling Republican Party o Armenia, doubts thetwo parties would be able to nominate a single candidate.

Te urkish ParliamentsCoup and MemorandumInvestigation Commission

has invited urkish Prime Minister Recep ayyip Erdoanto testiy about the February 28, 1997 postmodern coupand the April 27, 2007 e-memorandum. urkish mediahas speculated Erdoan will be asked about his 2005meeting with ormer Chie o General Sta Gen. YaarBykant at the Dolmabahe Palace in stanbul.

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Country News DigestTe Kyrgyz governmentwill increase the wagesjudges receive in an attempt

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Kazakhstan

to reduce judicial corruption. Kyrgyz ofcials hope thatthe increase will make bribes less appealing. Te increaseollows a report last month that the actual wages oKyrgyz workers increased by 25% last year. Te judiciaryis consistently criticized on human rights and corruption.

Pakistan released thirteenAghan aliban prisonersthis week and is consideringreleasing ormer aliban second-in-command, MullahAbdul Ghani Baradar, sparking hopes that Islamabadmay be willing to broker peace talks with the militants.Te Aghan government believes Baradar would be moreopen to dialogue than many o his comrades.

Mongolia

IranIran unveiled new missileand artillery systemsuesday during its largescale Velayat 4 military exercises. Iranian mediaclaims the new Qader missile system can be deployedin 30 minutes and the Saat system is undetectable byenemies. Te military maneuvers came just one weekater Iran red on a US drone over international waters.Western experts assert Iran oten exaggerates its weaponscapabilities.

urkmenistan has cut ogas exports to Iran ater thecountries ailed to cometo an agreement on pricing. Iran buys almost a third ourkmenistans gas exports, which it relies on heavilyto uel its northern regions, and hopes to increase itsimports to 40 billion cubic meters/day rom the current15-18 billion cubic meters/day.

Sarah Armstrong, a mininglawyer, has been bannedrom leaving Mongolia.She has been repeatedly interrogated or corruptionallegations within the company South Gobi Resources.

Kazakhstan has beenelected to the UN HumanRights Council or the rst

time. Kazakhstan will serve or the 2013-2015 term. TeUN Human Rights Council was established in 2006 toreplace the Humans Right Commission. Te Council hasorty-seven members; eighteen new member states wereelected to the new term.

A Premier League soccermatch in ajikistan endedearly as the reeree was

attacked by players and ans alike ater a controversialgoal. Istaravshan FK and Energetik Dushanbe weretied 1-1 when the controversial goal was awarded. Aterdisputing with the reeree two Energetik players weresent o which set o the brawl.

An Uzbek court hasreversed an August decisionallowing the seizure o

Russian telecommunications company MSs assets inthe country. Te court also imposed a ne o $600 millionon the company that can be paid in installments over theeight months. Te reversal comes as pressure rom Russiaon the Karimov amily, especially daughter Gulnara, torelease the assets increased in past weeks.

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4/6

Country News DigestEstonian trade unionswant to increase minimumwages by 10% to decrease

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republicthe disparity between the rich and the poor. Tey aredemanding that wages be increased rom 290 euros to320 euros.

Prime Minister Necas andthe Civic Democrats havebegun to moderate theirrhetoric in reerence to harsh austerity measures that theyearlier proposed in order to reduce the budget decit.Ater sound deeats in regional elections and a close callin a recent condence vote, Necas says that he will revisitthe plan to reduce the decit once growth is higher.

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Romania

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Slovakia is preparing tonalize a deal with Spain, inwhich Spain would receive22 million tons worth o carbon credits in exchange orcash that is intended to reduce Slovakias budget decit.Ater the recent recession, several governments in the EUhave been let with excess carbon credits, which they areree to sell to other countries. Slovakia is reportedly alsoeyeing a similar deal with Austria.

Te head o Hungarysbanking association, MihalyPatai, has resigned inprotest over new government impositions on the bankingsector. Prime Minister Viktor Orbans governmentrecently reneged on its promise to cut its bank tax - thehighest in Europe - in hal, and has doubled other levieson Hungarys banks.

Romanias GDP is estimatedby the National Institute oStatistics to have allen by0.5% in the third quarter o the year. Estimates rom theEuropean Commission predict that Romania will see itsGDP grow this year by 0.8% and 2.2% the next. Weakagricultural output and Eurozone problems adverselyaected Romanias growth this year.

Lithuanian Prime MinisterAndrius Kubilius stated hissupport or the Visaginas

nuclear plant, which was rejected in the reerendum.In an interview he stated, I we do not build our ownnuclear power plant, then our money, the money o ourconsumers, our residents, which we pay or the importo electricity, will go or the construction o the nuclearpower plant in [Russias] Kaliningrad Region.

In the third quarter o 2012Latvia showed the highestEuropean growth rates

with a 5.3 percent increase in Gross Domestic Product(GDP). Te Eurozones GDP decreased 0.6 percent romthe second quarter o 2012. At the same time Standard &Poors increased Latvias credit rating rom BBB-/A-3 toBBB/A-2 and Latvias transer and convertibility (&C)assessment rom A- to A.

Independence Daycelebrations in Warsawthis week devolved into

violence, when nationalist protesters began to shootreworks at the police police and pelt them with stones.Te police pacied the situation using tear gas and rubberbullets. In all, 22 police ofcers were injured and 176protesters were detained.

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5/6

Country News DigestBulgaria signed anagreement with Gazpromon Tursday nalizing the

Bulgaria

Albania

CroatiaSouth Stream pipeline deal. Bulgaria was the nal countryto sign on to the investment agreement. Construction isplanned to start next month and the rst gas deliveriesare scheduled or December 2015. Te Bulgarian portiono the pipeline is projected to cost $4.2 billion.

Tousands gathered inZagreb cheered as theconvictions o AnteGotovina and Mladen Markac were overturned by awar crimes court in Te Hague. Te two men had beencharged o partaking in a criminal conspiracy led by lateCroatian President Franjo udjman to permanentlyand orcibly remove the Serb civilian population romKrajina.

Serbia

Macedonia

President Filip Fujanovichas signalled that MiloDjukanovich will returnas Prime Minister o Montenegro. Djukanovich hasheld both the posts o President and Prime Minister oMontenegro in the past, and since then, he has headed theDemocratic Party o Socialists, which received the mostvotes in a recent parliamentary election and now aces thechallenge o orming a ruling coalition with other parties.

A second round o talkstook place this weekbetween the PrimeMinisters o Kosovo and Serbia . Despite vocal protestsrom opposition groups in both countries, many concreteagreements were realized on such issues as reedom omovement, recognition o diplomas, and trade.

Social Democrat andormer prime ministerBorut Pahor unexpectedlywon the rst round o voting in the presidential electionson uesday with 40 percent o the vote. Current presidentDanilo urk received 35 percent and the conservativeruling Democratic Partys candidate Milan Zver receivedjust 24 percent, as his popularity declined due to a painulausterity program. Pahor and urk will ace a runo onDecember 2.

World Bank released astatement saying that

Czech Utility CEZ could walk out o Albania in theupcoming months. CEZ stated that it has not been ableto resolve its dispute with the government over tarisand extraordinary taxes.

Russias energy minister,Alexander Novak, statedthat Serbia has requested a

loan or $1 billion. Serbia wants 300 million by the endo the year, and 700 million by 2013.

N i k o l a o d o r o v ,Macedonias Minister oHealth, has made it known

that he is looking to hire certied geniuses as personaladvisors. Tose without an IQ exceeding 140, a collegedegree, and prociency in two oreign languages will notbe considered or the position. Authorities in Macedoniaare investigating whether the IQ requirement constitutesa discriminatory hiring process.

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Bosnia &Herzegovina

Valentin Inzko, theHigh Representative orBosnia and Herzegovina,addressed the Security Council this week and sharplycriticized the leaders o the autonomous Serbian republicor undermining the state. Mr. Inzkos remarks includedquotations o leading Bosnian Serbs calling or thedissolution o the state. Russia criticized the report and

blamed recent tensions on the Bosniaks.

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