ceres news digest: issue #3, vol.2

7/29/2019 CERES News Digest: Issue #3, Vol.2

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Country News DigestIssue #3 Vol.2

01/28/12-02/01/12

Editor: Eugene Imas

Contributors:-Joseph Gates-Matthew OBrien-Bree Swineford-Jillian Tetirick-Grace Tran

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2/6

Country News DigestCity workers in Mexico cityquietly removed the statueo Heydar Aliyev, which

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiawas erected only ve months ago. While the case wasembarrassing or the government, pictures o the workerstaking down the statue were widely circulated on witterand Facebook. As one journalist stated, it was excitingnews or the democratic portion o society.

On January 30, Russiastated that it was cancelingits narcotics and humantracking pact with the US. Prime Minister Medvedevscurt statement came shortly ater the United Statesannounced that it was pulling out rom a joint panel oncivil society. Leaders stated that the move will help Russiarid itsel o some dependence on the US.

Armenia

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Turkey

Former police chie OlexiyPukach has been convictedo the 2000 murder ojournalist Georgy Gongadze. Mr. Pukach conessedto the murder early in the investigation, claiming thathe strangled Mr. Gongadze by accident during aninterrogation ordered by the then interior ministerYuri Kravchenko. Mr. Kravchenko committed suicideunder suspicious circumstances beore he was set to bequestioned.

On uesday BelarusianForeign Minister oVladimir Makei andAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary o Iranto Belarus Mohammad Reza Sabouri to discuss prospectso cooperation. On Monday the State Science andechnology Committee (SSC) Chairman Igor Voitovmet with head o ehran Housing Investment SeyedAhmad Moghimi to discuss bilateral cooperation inhousing and science and technology.

Te meeting planned orFeb. 1 between RomanianPresident Basescu andMoldovan President imoti was postponed due to

imotis recent health problems. imoti suered romcholecystitis and is undergoing treatment. Te Presidential

Administration apologized to the Romanian President andto all those aected by the postponed visit.

A representative rom theInternational MonetaryFund Azim Sadikov

released an economic orecast or Georgia this week. Itemphasized that Georgias economic prosperity or thenext year depends on reinstating close trade relationswith Russia and reducing domestic political instability.

United States Ambassadorto Armenia John Heernmet with Armenian Prime

Minister igran Sargsyan to discuss USAIDs ve-yearstrategy or the country. USAID aims at spending $32million to support reorms in Armenia that will addresspolitical and administrative problems.

On Friday morning, twowere let dead ater a suicidebomber attacked the US

embassy in Ankara. As o 9:35 AM, State Departmentspokeswoman Victoria Nuland conrmed that the blastwas a terrorist attack.

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3/6

Country News DigestBishkek is trying torenegotiate the terms o amining deal with Canada-

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

based Centerra Gold Inc and is threatening to cancel thecontract i the two parties cannot come to an agreement.Signed in 2009 under President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, thegovernment is paid a 14 percent tax on Centerras grossrevenues rom the Kumtor mine. Bishkek now eels thisrate is too low.

Investigators revealed thatuel purchased or Aghansecurity orces with UnitedStates taxpayer dollars might contain some petroleumo Iranian origin. Such purchases breach economicsanctions levied by the United States on Iran over itsnuclear program.

Mongolia

IranTis week, Iran announcedits intention to installthousands o next-gen-eration centriuges at its main nuclear plant in Natanz.Tis would greatly decrease the time required to producessile material, including uranium used in nuclearweapons. ehran continues to insist that it intends tobuild a civilian nuclear power program and not nuclearbombs.

A report rom theUS Special InspectorGeneral or AghanistanReconstruction alleged that it is possible that the UShas been buying uel or the Aghan troops rom Iran.While most o the uel that the US receives comes romKazakhstan and urkmenistan, there is a possibility thatthe uel is blended rom dierent suppliers, includingIran. Te report, however, oered no conclusive ndings.

A report on Wednesdaysuggested that constructiono the Oyu olgoi miningproject might stall ater the Mongolian governmentdemanded a greater share o prots. Te company undingthe project, Rio into, issued a statement that reassuredinvestors that construction was on track, ater stocks dove10% due to the report.

Kazakhstan intends to cutRussian oil imports due to adisagreement on pricing in

the oil-or-uel deal signed by the two countries in 2012.Kazakhstan needs to import oil in order to bolster its ownsupplies, which are lower this year due to the closure othree domestic reneries set to re-open in 2016. However,due to dissatisaction with the deal, Kazakhstan may lookto China to ulll its import quotas instead.

Te ajik governmentis now saying it blockedaccess to some websites this

month to prevent the spread o alse inormation andpossible blackmail. Communications Service DeputyChie Raqjon Shokirov said the actions were taken inaccordance with ajik law. Previous explanations or thedowned websites have ranged rom maintenance to straybullets taking out internet lines.

Uzbekistan has reopenedrail links at bordercrossings with Kyrgyzstan

ater several weeks o closure. ashkent closed the borderearlier this month ater residents o Uzbekistans Sokhdistrict attacked Kyrgyz border guards installing electriclines to a Kyrgyz border post. Last week trucks carryinghumanitarian aid were allowed to cross the border inorder to reach the districts that had been completely cuto due to the border closure.

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4/6

Country News DigestPresident oomas HendrikIlves rearmed Estoniassupport or Georgian EU

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republicintegration and membership this week. He met withGeorgias Foreign Minister Maja Panjikidze and citedthe countrys recent power transition to an oppositionparty as proo o the Caucasian states commitment todemocracy.

Te upper house o theCzech parliament haspassed a bill legalizingmarijuana or medicinal purposes. A similar bill waspreviously passed by the lower house in December. Isigned into law, the bill will allow or patients to obtainprescriptions to purchase marijuana, but they will not bepermitted grow their own.

Latvia

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Hungary

Poland

Slovakia was amid a largegroup o Central andEastern European statesto receive a C grade rom ransparency Internationalin regards to deense ministry transparency and risko corruption. Te grades were calculated based onve primary corruption risks: politics, nance, humanresources, operation management, and procurement.

Te IMF has reusedHungarys request or aline o fexible credit. PrimeMinister Viktor Orban has been criticized throughoutthe EU or unorthodox stimulus measures that have ledHungary into recession.

Te International MonetaryFund has agreed to extendRomanias 5 billion Euro($6.7 billion) precautionary loan until June. PrimeMinister Victor Ponta asked or the extension in orderto complete more reorms. Bucharest must sell minoritystakes in state energy companies, such as ransgaz SAand Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA, beore the IMFboard meets in June to review the countrys progress.

Lithuania has announcedits intention to join theEurozone in 2015. Te

country barely missed its last announced deadline oreuro application in 2007 due to its infation rate, whichwas slightly over the limit. Lithuanias Prime MinisterAlgirdas Butkevicius stressed that the state wouldspecically target infation in order to reach its goal.

On Tursday, Latvia passeda law allowing it to applyor membership in the

Eurozone, despite lukewarm public opinion on the topic.Latvian lawmakers have promised to submit the ocialapplication or Euro adoption in February or March.

An investigation on horsemeat ound in burgerpatties produced in Ireland

has led to processing acilities in Poland. Seven Polishmeat plants are being inspected in connection with thescandal. Te names o the companies involved havenot been released in order to protect the reputations oinnocent parties.

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5/6

Country News DigestOn Friday, thousandsgathered in downtownSoa to honor the memory

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiao the victims o Bulgarias Communist era. Speaking atthe ceremony, Bulgarian PM Margarita Popova stated, Iwould never want this time back, neither I nor my amily,nor children nor grandchildren, or those who will comehundreds o years ater us.

Croatia has agreed totake part in GazpromsSouth Stream project. Teconstruction o a branch o the South Stream pipeline isexpected to dramatically increase natural gas supplies inthe small Balkan nation when it becomes ully operationalin December 2016.

Serbia

Macedonia

Montenegro has scheduledpresidential elections to beheld on April 7. Currentpresident Filip Vujanovic is the rontrunner in polls butaces questions about whether he can run or anotherterm. Te 2007 Constitution imposes a two-term limiton the presidency and Vujanovic has already served two.Vujanovic supporters claim that the President is onlynishing his rst term as the country became independentin 2006 and thereore is able to stand or oce once more.

Kosovo Force (KFOR)troops have removedbarricades rom Pristina-Raska Road, which connects Pristina and NorthernKosovo. Te barricades were put up by the Serbs a ewdays ago. No incidents were reported during the removalo the barricade.

Prime Minister Jansahas reused to step downeven ater his coalitiongovernment broke up. Te Civic List Party let thegovernment on Wednesday ater Jansas reusal to stepdown ollowing earlier charges o corruption. Jansascoalition now controls only 43 out o the 90 seats in theparliament, which could lead to early elections.

In response to AlbanianPrime Minister SaliBerishas call or a greater

Albania, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovcalled on all European states to adhere to the HelsinkiFinal Act signed in 1975. Lavrov said that redrawingthe borders where much blood has been shed wouldbe unacceptable. During the celebration o Albanias100th birthday, Berisha made reerence to the dream oAlbanian unication.

Despite recent progress inthe countrys EU accessionprocess, Serbs are cooling

to the idea o joining the bloc. Recent polling puts theportion o Serbs who support joining the EU at 41%Despite the decline in support the government is goingahead with the reorms needed to bring Serbia intocompliance with EU policies.

On January 30, theUN envoy tasked withmediating the talks

between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz,held discussions with representatives rom each countryseparately. Nimetz will hold a joint talk in March.

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6/6

Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

Neboja Radmanovi, theChairman o the BosnianPresidency, met with thePrime Minister and Minister o Internal Aairs oSerbia, Ivica Dai on Wednesday. Te two discussedthe improving cooperation between their countries, aswell as their joint commitment to join the EU. Bosniaand Serbia will also sign an agreement to cooperate over

prosecutions o people responsible or war crimes.

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