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1) Lithuanian Envoy to Belarus Interviewed on 2011 Election, NATO
Interview with Lithuanian Ambassador to Belarus Edminas Bagdonas by an
unidentified correspondent; place and date not given: "Ambassador: Belarus
Does Not Use Advantages of EU Eastern Partnership Program"
2) Lithuania's Kubilius: Talks Held To Supply Oil to Belarus via Klaipeda
"Belarus May Receive 1st Oil Shipment via Klaipeda Soon - Lithuanian Prime
Minister" -- BNS headline
3) Lithuania's Kubilius Hopes To Examine Belarus' Planned Nuclear Plant
"Lithuanian Prime Minister To Pedal Past Belarus' Planned N-Plant Site" --
BNS headline
4) Interfax Oil & Gas Report for 22 - 28 Jul 10
"INTERFAX Oil, Gas & Coal Report" -- Interfax Round-up
5) Prime Minis ter Sidorski discusses gas terminal project with
6) Interfax Russia & CIS Presidential Bulletin Report for 28 Jul 10
"INTERFAX Presidential Bulletin" -- Interfax Round-up
7) Belarusian Presidential Candidate Romanchuk on Economic, Foreign Policy
Interview with Belarusian presidential candidate Yaroslav Romanchuk by
Konstantin Amelyushkin; place and date not given: "Romanchuk: There Should
Be Something More in Belarus Than Just Big Lithuanian Businesses"
8) Danske Bank Revises Lithuania's GDP Growth Forecasts Upwards
"Danske Bank Forecasts 0.9 Percent GDP Growth for Lithuania in 2010" --
BNS headline
9) Lithuania's Consumer Confidence Index up 5 Points in Jul
"Lithuanian Consumer Confidence Rises 5 Points in Jul From Jun" -- BNS
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Lithuanian Envoy to Belarus Interviewed on 2011 Election, NATO
Interview with Lithuanian Ambassador to Belarus Edminas Bagdonas by an
unidentified correspondent; place and date not given: "Ambassador: Belarus
Does Not Use Advantages of EU Eastern Partnership Program" - delfi
Thursday July 29, 2010 16:37:11 GMT
"One of the items on our agenda is to open a NATO Information Center. But,
the final result is that we do not have it. All I want to say is that such
centers were established in Kiev and Moscow many years ago," the
ambassador says.
(Correspondent) The Belarusians who have their own opinion view the
Lithuanian Embassy as a jolt of fresh European air. What is your take on
the situation in the country, and do you think that the Lithuanian Embassy
is indeed a European island in Belarus?
(Bagdonas) Without a ny doubt. We have always been like that and have
always been very caring and understanding in our relations with the
friends in Belarus, and they respect us and cooperate with us. The
difficulties that we have now -- I cannot say that we have them all the
time without any breaks -- have always existed.
At the end of each year, we always hear about problems with energy
resources. Now the nature of the problems has perhaps changed, I would
rather not go into a deep analysis of the situation. But our doors are
always open, and we have many friends. In the difficult and in the not so
difficult times, we always could find a common language with our
Belarusian friends, with civil servants and with those who are not civil
servants. I do not think that now is the best situation in the country,
but we are and always will be open for communication and dialogue.
(Correspondent) Two years have passed since Europe changed its tactics
toward Belarus. As an ambassador who has been working in the country all
this time, do you see any changes?
(Bagdonas) You know what the conditions and the criteria of EU's relations
with the Belarusian Administration are. There is a continuous contact. We
are in a regular contact with the Belarusian Administration. You know that
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, (former European commissioner for trade and
European neighborhood policy), has visited Belarus; and that Javier
Solana, (former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security
Policy), and the Italian prime minister have visited Belarus; and that
Stefan Fule, (European commissioner for enlargement and European
neighborhood policy), whom we know from the times when he was a Czech
ambassador to Lithuania, has recently visited Belarus. Statements have
been made. Unfortunately, Belarus has not used the advantages of the
proposals made to Minsk, including the EU Eastern Partnership proposal.
(Correspondent) We know what Lithuania's stanc e on the Russian-Georgian
war is. Not long ago, a Belarusian TV channel broadcast an interview with
(Georgian President) Mikheil Saakashvili. Can we say that this interview
is a result of a successful Lithuanian diplomacy?
(Bagdonas) I will not comment on the discussions between Saakashvili and
the Belarusian Administration. This is none of my business.
(Correspondent) The Lithuanian Embassy is a NATO contact point embassy in
Belarus. What has been happening in the past several years?
(Bagdonas) Our embassy has been a NATO contact point embassy for five
years now. We are doing our job.
(Correspondent) Will there be a NATO Information Center in Minsk?
(Bagdonas) This question should not be addressed to me. We wanted to have
a NATO Information Center in Minsk. All I can tell you now is that we do
not have it. We organize round table discussions, our foreign relations
students are in contact with the local Faculty of International Rela
tions, I lecture there, and so forth. One of the items on our agenda is to
open a NATO Information Center. But, the final result is that we do not
have it. All I want to say is that such centers were established in Kiev
an d Moscow many years ago.
(Correspondent) In 2011, Belarus will elect its president. You, as a
Lithuanian representative in Belarus, are monitoring the processes. What
are your observations?
(Bagdonas) I think this will be a very complicated period. I know that,
according to the law, the election should take place not later than the
beginning of February, but I do not know when the election will actually
take place. The current situation, the relations with Russia, the
statements made by the one and the other side -- I think all that would
influence the final result of the election. The most important thing is
for the election to be fair and transparent, and the OSCE criteria should
be honored.
(Correspondent) Well, Lithuania wi ll preside over this organization next
(Bagdonas) We are working together with Kazakhstan in the so-called
Troyka. We are always working here (in Belarus).
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Lithuania's Kubilius: Talks Held To Supply Oil to Belarus via Klaipeda
"Belarus May Receive 1st Oil Shipment via Klaipeda Soon - Lithuanian Prime
Minister" -- BNS headline - BNS
Thursday July 29, 2010 14:15:37 GMT
"Talks are underway to use the Klaipedos Nafta terminal's capacities for
oil supply. Possibly, the first such oil shipment will reach Belarus via
Klaipedos Nafta in the near future. The whole technological line will be
tested (to see) whether it is worthwhile (importing crude)," Kubilius, who
is currently holidaying in Belarus, said in an interview with the Ziniu
Radijas radio station.
Lithuanian and Belarusian companies will then agree on business terms and
conditions, he said.
Klaipedos Nafta CEO Rokas Masiulis told BNS that the company has been
discussing such a possibility with Belarusians for some time now, but no
agreements have been reached yet.
"We have been discussing this issue -- technical and other conditions --
with the Belarusians for quite a long time. If we see that this is
physically possible, the trial batch -- one tanker -- could be reloaded by
the end of thi s year. We will then think about a long-term contract. This
requires more preparations and investments, because it is a new product,"
he said.
It was reported in late May that Klaipedos Nafta would have to make some
additional investments to be able to handle Belarus' crude imports.
According to media reports, while the Lithuanians were making calculations
to see if it was worthwhile expanding the terminal, Belarus opted to
import Venezuelan crude via Tallinn.
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Lithuania's Kubilius Hopes To Examine Belarus' Planned Nuclear Plant Site
"Lithuanian Prime Minister To Pedal Past Belarus' Planned N-Plant Site" --
BNS headline - BNS
Thursday July 29, 2010 13:32:20 GMT
"Our itinerary will take us very close to that declared construction site.
Perhaps we'll be able to see by ourselves how these plans are being put
into practice," Kubilius, who is currently holidaying in Belarus, said in
a telephone interview with the Ziniu Radijas radio station on Thursday (29
The prime minister stressed that Lithuania does not approve of Belarus'
plans to build such a facility in the Ostrovets district, close to the
border between the two countries.
"I have said this both to Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky and
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on more than one occasion. On one hand,
Belarusians declare that they are developing this project, but on the
other hand, they are half inviting us to join. I wouldn't dare to say what
stage this project is in -- whether it is actually being carried out or is
still being drawn up," he said.
Kubilius said that he has heard a proposal from Belarusians to make it a
joint project with Lithuania or even with the European Union.
The prime minister said that he expects that as part of their efforts to
agree on key projects, the two neighboring countries will come to
discussing the question of whether it is feasible for Belarus to build a
nuclear power facility in the location where it now plans to build it.
The Lithuanian Environment Ministry said in May that Belarus' planned
nuclear power plant in the Ostrovets district was unacceptable to
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Interfax Oil & Gas Report for 22 - 28 Jul 10
"INTERFAX Oil, Gas & Coal Report" -- Interfax Round-up - Interfax
Thursday July 29, 2010 08:18:29 GMT
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domestic and international issues)
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Prime Minister Sidorski discusses gas terminal project with - Belorusskiye
Novosti Online
Thursday July 29, 2010 08:18:15 GMT
Prime Minister Syarhey Sidorski met with his Lithuanian counterpart,
Andrius Kubilius, in Nyasvizh, Minsk region, on July 27, BelaPAN
The Lithuanian premier, who is spending his vacation making a bicycle tour
in Belarus together with Lithuanian politicians, officials, their family
members and friends, made a stopover in the medieval town for the informal
meeting with Mr. Sidorski.
Lithuania, which will build a liquefied natural gas terminal to ease
dependence on Russian gas, ma y also help Belarus seek alternative natural
gas routes, Agence France Presse said with reference to Mr. Kubilius.
"Belarus is showing its interest. I said we see the possibility of
developing two parallel projects that could be joined in the future," Mr.
Kubilius told AFP after the meeting.
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Interfax Russia & CIS Presidential Bulletin Report for 28 Jul 10
"INTERFAX Presidential Bulletin" -- Interfax Round-up - Interf ax
Thursday July 29, 2010 07:41:33 GMT
No 138 (4627)
Minsk supports Damascus free trade plans with customs union
Belarus president to visit Syria
Georgian leader calls for military reforms
US hopes Kazakhstan will keep favorable investment profile
US special representative dismisses critical remarks over Nabucco project
Seven Kyrgyz Supreme Court judges fired - govt
114 people missing in southern Kyrgyzstan riots
UN deputy human rights commissioner studies situation in southern
Criminal arrests decline in Russia - Justice Ministry
Russian legislation is harmonized with FATF recommendations
Medvedev makes police reshuffle
Russia to sign deal with Ukraine on inspecting Black Sea Fleet units
Drug production in Afghanistan declining - Tajikistan agency
True faith guarante es harmony in Ukraine, president says
Yanukovych signs law on state secrets
Tigipko expects positive decision from IMF on crediting Ukraine
Ukraine-Russia-EU meeting could clarify possibility of using Ukrainian
pipelinesinstead of South Stream project, says Oettinger
Minsk supports Damascus free trade planswith customs union
Belarus has shown support for Syria's intention to form a free trade zone
with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan -the three members of the recently
launched customs union.
A joint declaration, signed by the Belarusian and Syrian presidents, says
that the parties have confirmed their plan to continue preparations for a
switch to a free trade regime and to facilitate the mutual promotion of
goods and services on the national markets, the Belarusian president's
press service said, citing the declaration.
In this connection, the Belarusian side has supported Syria's desire to
form a free trade zo ne with all members of the customs union, the
declaration said.
The parties also reaffirmed the priority role of joint investment projects
in machine building, and the importance of broadening interaction in
agriculture, housing construction and in the petrochemical industry, it
Belarus president to visit Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has invited his Belarusian counterpart
Alexander Lukashenko to pay an official visit to Syria, the Belarusian
presidential press service said, citing a joint declaration by the two
"B. al-Assad expressed gratitude to Belarusian President A. Lukashenko for
a warm welcome offered to him (during his recent visit to Belarus) and
passed an invitation to pay an official visit to the Syrian Arab Republic
at any time convenient for him. Belarusian President A. Lukashenko
accepted the invitation with gratitude," the declaration said.
The dates for the visit will be agreed through diplo matic channels.
Georgian leader calls for military reforms
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has said the military budget must
increase in order to better defend the security of the country.
He ordered the Georgian Defense Ministry to prepare for the "total
defense" of the country at a meeting with senior officials from the
Defense Ministry and the United Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces on
Saakashvili said that in the past the army trained primarily for
involvement in peacekeeping operations. But now, more attention needed to
be paid to defending "every village, every street, every district."
He spoke of the importance of improving the quality of military training
and expressed dissatisfaction with the standard of training at military
academies where "much must be changed."
"We need more good officers," he said, adding that over 800 officers were
dismissed in t he course of the current reforms.
"Only valuable personnel must remain" in the army, the president said.
He said the armed forces were in possession of modern weapons but
providing more training to officers is a greater priority.
"The Georgian army is sufficiently armed today," he said. "More funds must
be spent on training."
He said that involvement in the NATO operation in Afghanistan "is a good
school for the Georgian military."
Georgia should not stop its involvement in Afghanistan but on the contrary
expand it, he said, adding that talks with partners are under way already.
US hopes Kazakhstan will keep favorableinvestment profile
The U.S. hopes that Kazakhstan will maintain a favorable investment
"Kazakhstan has always had a favorable investment climate. We hope it will
maintain it in the future," the Special Envoy of the United States Se
cretary of State for Eurasian Energy, Richard Morningstar, told reporters
on Wednesday in Astana.
He stressed that any controversial issues that may arise between the
government and the companies must be settled through talks and
US special representative dismisses critical remarks over Nabucco project
The Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian
Energy, Richard Morningstar disagrees with critical remarks regarding the
implementation of the Nabucco project.
"With all respect to President Nazarbayev, but I believe these statements
are exaggerated. The European Union has been much more active in the
development of the Nabucco project and the South Corridor than ever
before, especially in the last 7 months," he told reporters in Astana
commenting on critical remarks recently made by the Kazakh President.
As reported, earlier on July, 19 at a joint press conference with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel in Astana Nursultan Nazarbayev said that the
European Union was taking no practical steps to implement the Nabucco
"Kazakhstan has never been against Nabucco. The problem is that the
European Union is taking no steps to implement the project. I don't want
to sound overly critical, but it's a fact," he said.
Meanwhile, Morningstar noted that the United States hoped that Kazakhstan
would join the Nabucco project as a resource supplier in the future.
"President Nazarbayev also noted that Kazakhstan could join Nabucco if the
European Union took more action. (A) We hope that the EU and Kazakhstan
will seriously consider supplying gas to Nabucco and some day Kazakh gas
will go to the West just like it's being transported to Russia now and
will be supplied to China in the near future," Morningstar said.
Nabucco gas pipeline project envisages supply of gas from the Caspian
region to Europe, bypassing Russia. Constructio n budget for a 3,300-km
pipeline is estimated at 7.9 billion euros.
Members of the consortium - Germanic RWE, Austrian OMV, Turkey's Botas,
Romanian Transgaz, Bulgarian Bulgargaz and Hungarian MOL. Azerbaijan,
Turkmenistan and Iran are considered as possible gas sources for the
pipeline, but they had not signed any binding documents.
Construction of Nabucco is planned to begin in 2011, and commissioning is
slated for late 2014 - early 2015.
Seven Kyrgyz Supreme Court judges fired - govt
President Roza Otunbayeva has fired seven of the 33 judges that make up
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court, including Court Deputy Chairman Erkinbek
Toktomambetov, the government press service told Interfax.
114 people missing in southern Kyrgyzstan riots
A total of 114 people are listed as missing from the ethnic violence in
Osh and the Osh region, southern Kyrgyzstan, the region's commandant has
told Interfax citing official reports issued by the law enforcement
Ninety-three of the missing people are Kyrgyz and 21 are Uzbeks, he said.
Most of the missing people, 94, are men, the source said. The average age
of the missing people is 25-40.
UN deputy human rights commissioner studies situation in southern
Deputy UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang has
unexpectedly come to Osh to study the situation regarding the protection
of rights for ethnic minorities there.
While meeting with the local authorities on Wednesday, Kang said it is too
early to speak about stabilization until the victims feel secure.
The UN official's visit was unexpected for the Osh authorities. She is
being accompanied by officials from the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry protocol
During a meeting with the city commandant, Kang asked whether the center
for helping Uzbeks hurt in ethnic violence is getting a lot of phone
calls. Zamir Moldoshev, deputy command ant of the city, said: "The
callers' ethnic origin makes no different to us, they are all citizens of
Kyrgyzstan." Kang said Kyrgyz law enforcement officials need to keep such
Journalists were present in the meeting at Moldoshev's insistence, who
said that "we are doing everything in a transparent way and therefore the
presence of journalists is necessary."
However, Kang proposed making a trip around Osh without journalists. She
is currently meeting with the leaders of the Uzbek diasporas.
Criminal arrests decline in Russia - Justice Ministry
The number of arrests of criminal suspects in Russia has decreased 20%
over the past six months," Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov said while
meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Konovalov said this decline is due to the changes in the legislation
regarding economic crime suspects.
Medvedev, in turn, suggested that the Justice Ministry co nsider further
expanding the list of non-grave crimes, which are not punishable by a
prison term.
"We have made decisions on economic crimes, but there are a lot of other
non-grave crimes, for which there is no reason to put people behind bars.
You should think about that too," the president said, adding that "it will
apparently require new approaches to procedural legislation."
Konovalov said he still proposes "changes to the possibility of choosing
measures of restraint in the form of arrest, specifically, reducing these
possibilities to grave and especially grave crimes except for some cases
when criminals are odious persons."
The minister also said a long-term penitentiary system development policy
has now been completed and is in the last stage of negotiations.
This policy "plans for a transition to new types of punishment, including
so-called alternative punishment, which does not involve isolation from
soc iety, and also separates people convicted of serious crimes from
people convicted of less serious crimes," Konovalov said.,
This separation has already been started. "This work was done last year
and it has now been completed in virtually 80% of prisons," the minister
Konovalov also admitted that people continue to die in prisons. A total of
277 people died in prisons in 2008 and 233 died in 2009.
Konovalov said the Justice Ministry "has now reached an understanding of
how medical services in the penitentiary system should be organized. The
main trend is apparently to transition to the system of financing through
the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund in cases when it is
possible, while at the same time keeping prison medicine in remote areas,
where civilian doctors are hard to come by, for the transition period,"
Konovalov said.
Russian legislation is harmonized with FATF recommendations
Russian Presid ent Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law amendments in the
sphere of resisting money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, the
Kremlin's press service reported on Wednesday.
The bill passed by the State Duma on July 7 and approved by the Federation
Council on July 14 is aimed at harmonizing the Russian system of resisting
money-laundering and financing of terrorism with the recommendations of
the Financial Action Force on Money Laundering (FATF).
The amendments expand the list of crimes the financing of which is
regarded as financing of terrorism. The new crimes added to the list are
the illegal handling of nuclear materials or radioactive substances and
the theft or extortion of nuclear materials and radioactive substances.
Similar changes will be made in the federal law on resisting terrorism
defining the procedure of attributing an organization to the list of
terrorist organizations.
Amendments are made in the provision of the federal law o n resisting
money-laundering and financing of terrorism on the mandatory posting on
the website of the relevant authority and publication in the press of a
list of organizations and individuals who are known to be involved in
extremist activities and terrorism and also adjusting the reasons for
including organizations and individuals in the list and excluding from it.
Medvedev makes police reshuffle
Lt. Gen. Alexei Antonov has been dismissed as police chief of Russia's
Irkutsk region as part of a major reshuffle, the Kremlin's press service
said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also appointed Col. Viktor Shcherbakov
as Col. Oleg Agarkov's replacement as deputy p olice head of Krasnodar
region and as head of the region's public security police force.
Four other Russian regions will also have new police chiefs: Col.
Vladislav Belotserkovsky in Sakhalin, Maj. Gen. Alexei Lapin in Rostov,
Maj. Gen. Vladimir Morozov in Smolensk, and Maj. Gen. Andrei Sergeyev in
Russia to sign deal with Ukraine on inspectingBlack Sea Fleet units
Russia and Ukraine intend to sign an intergovernmental agreement on
interaction regarding inspections of Russian Black Sea Fleet units in
Ukraine, according to a directive signed by Russian Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin.
The directive approves a draft agreement between the Russian and Ukrainian
governments proposed by the Russian Foreign Ministry, coordinated with the
Defense and Justice Ministries and preliminarily cleared with Ukraine,
which plans for interaction in inspecting Black Sea Fleet units in Ukraine
in line with the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, the Vienna
Document 1999 of the Negotiations on Confidence-and Security-Building
Measures, and the Open Skies Treaty of March 24, 1992, it says.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to hold negotiations with
Ukraine and, upon reaching an agreement, sign it on behalf of the Russian
government. The ministry has also been authorized "to make amendments of a
non-fundamental nature to the draft agreement."
In line with the draft agreement, interaction during inspections will be
ensured, on the Russian part, by the Defense Ministry Department for
Control Over the Implementation of Treaties (the national center for the
reduction of nuclear danger) and on the Ukrainian side, by the General
Staff's verification department.
In particular, the parties will have to inform each other of notifications
received from third countries on their intention to visit Black Sea Fleet
units in Ukraine for inspection purposes.
The document regulates technical and time parameters for inspections and
the parties' obligations.
In inspecting Black Sea Fleet units on Ukrainian territory, a Russian
representative will lead the inspection groups, which will have to include
up to two Ukrainian representatives.
Drug production in Afghanistan declining - Tajikistan agency
Tajikistan seized 30.8% less illegal drugs during the first six months of
2010 than during the same time period last year, Tajikistan's Drug Control
Agency said.
The reason was a decline in drug production in neighboring Afghanistan as
a result of more effective official measures and an unclear fungus that
had hit poppy plantations, the agency said.
"In the first half of 2010, all security services of Tajikistan seized
2,047 kilograms of drugs, including 540 kilograms of heroin, which was
30.8% below the level for the period from January to June 2009," the head
of the agency's investigation department, Khalimdzhon Makhmudov, told a
news conference.
"We have reduced seizures because in Afghanistan law enforcement agencies
have begun to intensively fight drug production, drug consumption within
Afghanistan is growing, and plantations of opium poppy no longer produce
crop s they have produced before because they are stricken by a fungus,"
he said.
The fungus "has been a help to all those who combat Afghan drugs,"
Makhmudov said.
"All this will lead to an overall decline of about 25% in the flow of
drugs through Tajikistan," he said.
He cited the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as saying opium
cultivation in Afghanistan dropped 22% in 2009, with areas under opium
poppy shrinking to 123,000 hectares.
The opium production decline "affected the price of opium in Afghanistan,"
Makhmudov said. "It trebled to $160 per kilogram."
According to the Tajik Drug Control Agency, there are 7,347 registered
drug addicts in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan, which shares a 1,344-kilometer border with Afghanistan, is one
of the countries used to export Afghan heroin to Russia, Europe and
The UN says about one-fifth of Afghan drugs travel through the so- called
" ;northern route," which passes through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan, all bordering Afghanistan.
True faith guarantees harmony in Ukraine,president says
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has congratulated his compatriots on
the Day of the Baptism of the Kyivan Rus.
"The well being and prosperity of our state depend not only on economic
development today. Deep faith (results in) high morality and spirituality,
and guarantees harmony in our society," the press service of the president
said, citing a presidential address to the people.
Yanukovych emphasized that "Christianity always was that life-giving power
which helped the Ukrainian people to overcome tough times, and the Church
defended the ideals of faith, and enriched it with holiness of spirit and
The president added that today "we worship the eternal values of our
glorious ancestors and are protecting the sources of the Orthodox faith:
Saint Sophia (Cathedral) and Kyiv Pechersk Monastery."
Yanukovych signs law on state secrets
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed amendments to the law on
state secrets, the presidential press service reported on Tuesday.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the law on amendments to
the law on state secrets on July 6.
According to the law, decisions to assign the status of state secret to
any information, changing the secrecy classification and the cancellation
of decisions to assign the status of state secret to any information are
made by state secret experts within one month from the moment of receiving
applications from local government bodies, companies, organizations or
The law says that these decisions are to be registered in the Security
Service of Ukraine (SBU), and they are grounds for the drawing up of a
list of state secret documents.
The procedure for the registrati on of state experts' decisions is
determined by the Ukrainian cabinet.
According to the law, documents are to be sent to the SBU by state bodies,
local government bodies, companies and organizations to apply for the
right to have access to state secrets.
Tigipko expects positive decision from IMF on crediting Ukraine
Vice Prime Minister on Economic Issues Sergiy Tigipko has said he is
confident there will be a positive decision from the board of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the allocation of a credit to
"I am sure that today the decision of the IMF's board will be positive for
us," he told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Tigipko also said he expected that about 80% of the IMF assets would be
used to increase of the forex and gold reserves of the National Bank of
Ukraine-Russia-EU meeting could clarifypossibility of using Ukrainian
pipelines instead of South Stream project, says Oettinger
A three-way meeting between Ukraine, Russia and the European Union could
make it clear whether it is possible to use pipelines running through the
south of Ukraine as an alternative to the South Stream project, European
Commissioner on Energy Gunther Oettinger said during a meeting with
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in Kyiv on Wednesday,
Interfax-Ukraine has learned from Vitaliy Lukyanenko, the press secretary
of the Ukrainian premier.
Oettinger said that gas would play an important role in the energy
supplies of Europe for the next 40 years.
He said he wanted to find a solution that would be a more successful
business project than the South Stream. In this respect, there is no more
expedient and reliable route than transit through Ukraine, Lukyanenko
quoted Oetinnger as saying.
The commissioner also offered to hold a tripartite summit involving
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and high-level
representatives from the Ukrainian and Russian governments.
"Such a meeting could clarify this issue indeed," the commissioner said at
the meeting.
In turn, the Ukrainian prime minister told Oettinger that Ukraine wants to
have guaranteed volumes of gas shipments through its territory, and wants
to receive confirmation of these volumes, both from the EU and from
Azarov also said that Ukraine sees two priorities in its relations with
Europe - the conclusion of an association agreements and a deal on the
formation of a free trade zone without exemptions and limitations, in
particular, on Ukrainian agricultural products. Compiled by
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Belarusian Presidential Candidate Romanchuk on Economic, Foreign Policy
Interview with Belarusian presidential candidate Yaroslav Romanchuk by
Konstantin Amelyushkin; place and date not given: "Romanchuk: There Should
Be Something More in Belarus Than Just Big Lithuanian Businesses" - delfi
Thursday July 29, 2010 06:24:35 GMT
Romanchuk supports the idea of building normal relations with Lithuania
and Lithuanian businesses, as opposed to cooperating exclusively with big
Lithuanian businesses, something that is happening at the moment. His
vision is Belarus a member of the EU, and he wants Belarus to have good
partnership with Russia.
(Amely ushkin) According to some media and press reports, the situation in
Belarus seems to be extremely unstable. What do you make of the situation?
(Romanchuk) It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that the situation in
Belarus is extremely unstable. For the time being, the macroeconomic
situation is sufficiently stable, wages and pensions are paid without any
delays, there is no surge of inflation, and there are not many cases of
payment default. The tension is being created by the media and the press
and by the nervous attitude of the government, and, of course, by the
information attacks coming from Russia.
There are many problems, and there is some tension in the system of state
finances. For the first time in many years budget deficit is almost 4
percent of GDP, which means it is almost three times higher than it has
been provided for in the Budget Law. In June, the National Bank increased
the amount of money in circulation. And, of course, the Belarusian
Government is worried because of the growing (Russian gas company)
Gazprom's demands.
Moreover, the government has not decided what to do with oil, which used
to provide the government with a considerable inflow of foreign currency.
The government is also concerned with the decreasing profitability of
production and the growing cost of wages, production, etc.
All in all, we can say that the liquidity of banks is deteriorating, the
situation with the budget is getting worse, and the government needs to
increase wages and pensions rapidly, but it does not have the money to do
so. And even if it raises wages and pensions, it will do that at the
expense of printing more money, which would lead to a rapid deterioration
of the financial situation of businesses and banks. All that means that
the situation in Belarus is such that any step that might be taken could
lead to a collapse of the entire system. However, I still would not say
that the situation we had in Belarus by 1 July was "extremely unstable."
(Amelyushkin) Why have you decided to run for president?
(Romanchuk) I and my colleagues made this decision because of the
following reasons: I am the only economist among the candidates.
Considering the economic crisis situation, there will be the need to deal
with many difficult tasks. It is important to be more than just a
politician. It will be more important to understand the whole picture,
including such fields as economics, politics, and the like. We submitted
various projects and concepts to the government in 2008. And this is why
we have a program for economic reforms and we know how to improve the
situation with the jobs.
Moreover, I have never worked in Lukashenka's team. I am a new person and
I always find a common language with experts and professionals, both in
the East and in the West. And, already now, when we are in the process of
our pre-election campaign, the investors and en trepreneurs with whom I
have had meetings have a good opinion about my program. And if this
program is implemented, the difficult period of transformation for Belarus
will cost less, and the transformation will be carried out with the
participation of the serious investors who have already promised to invest
at least $10 billion into the Belarusian economy.
(Amelyushkin) Reform s always cause problems for ordinary citizens. Will
the transformation period be painful for them?
(Romanchuk) Here in Belarus we do not have any possibility to have a
painless transformation. The only question is whether we take many small
and painful steps or whether we opt for an intensive therapy. From the
painful experience of Poland and Russia we have learned the downside of
"shock therapy," or what it means to be in shock without any therapy,
something that has happened in Ukraine.
I am ready to invite the best reformists in the world to participate in
the pro ject. I can do that thanks to my participation in the network of
international experts. This is why, unlike (former Ukrainian President
Viktor) Yushchenko, we have a set of documents already now, and we could
adopt them within a month after our victory in the presidential election.
The interesting thing is that Lukashenka knows that, and the project that
we have prepared recently on liberalization has much more chances to be
accepted by the nomenklatura (governing establishment), and of course by
businesses, than the projects prepared by the government.
(Amelyushkin) Do you think the current conflict between Belarus and Russia
will have an influence on Lukashenka's ratings and his pre-election
(Romanchuk) It could win him several additional percentage points in the
short term. However, Belarusians do not really love their first president.
According to a poll conducted this spring, 51 percent of the population
would like another person to be their president; and 40 percent do not
know whether to vote for Lukashenka or whether to vote for a democratic
candidate. In any case, Lukashenka does not have a real capacity to
increase his rating at the cost of these 40 percents.
These are the people who are not interested in emotions, wars, and
conflicts; they are interested in their wages, the stability of prices,
their jobs, the quality of services, and stable state finances. We have
answers to these questions, Lukashenka does not. It is very likely that
the current economic and political conflict will continue, and this is why
I think that these people will be more willing to believe that we, and not
Lukashenka, can cope with this conflict.
Even the nomenklatura is starting to doubt that Lukashenka could be a
winner in this situation. If Russia joins the OSCE's evaluation of
elections in Belarus, this will be a very difficult situation for
Lukashenka. And he understands that.
(Amelyushkin) Y ou have just returned from Russia. What is their reaction
to what is going on in Belarus?
(Romanchuk) Speaking of the government and the Kremlin, they obviously are
resenting Lukashenka. They perceive him as a man who does not keep his
word and who does not honor his commitments. It is the Kremlin that
controls the information campaign against Lukashenka and is responsible
for the films broadcast by (the Russian television channel) NTV. But, for
the time being, the idea is to intimidate Lukashenka, there are no
attempts to remove him from power. None of the politicians such as
(Russian MP Konstantin) Kosachev, (Russian Duma Speaker Boris) Gryzlov, or
(Sergey) Mironov, (speaker of the Russian Federation Council), agree with
the opinion of the Belarusian democrats that an independent investigation
of these crimes should be carried out in Belarus.
To my surprise, other people (in Russia), such as the Democrats and
sometimes the Liberals, are defending Lukashe nka, because they believe
that the Kremlin and Putin look even worse in this situation, and that
these films are nasty and that this is an intrusion into Belarusian
affairs. They believe that this is beneath Russia, and that even though
Lukashenka is a "son of a bitch," this is a slap in the face of Belarus,
not just a slap in Lukashenka's face.
Speaking of the economists with whom I have been talking -- (Aleksey)
Kudrin, (Vladimir) Mau, (Yevgeniy) Gontmakher, and (Anatoliy) Chubays --
they are not interested in emotions. They think that the Belarusian model
has quite serious institutional and financial problems. According to their
calculations, and here I agree with them, Belarus will be short of about
$6-8 billion by the end of the year; and Belarus needs the money to
maintain the economic stability at its present level. If we do not have
this stability, we will have to face devaluation, cash outflow from the
banks, deterioration of the financial situa tion of companies, and the
inability to honor social commitments, for example to raise wages to $500
(per month).
They understand that perhaps the Kremlin has overdone it, but they are not
going to sympathize with Lukashenka or with his model of centralized
state-planned economy. And they do wish us well.
(Amelyushkin) Lukashenka has said that Russia does not need a customs
union, does Belarus need it?
(Romanchuk) The customs union, as it is now, is absolutely not needed.
Even more, it discredits the idea of economic freedom and integration. In
my opinion, as far as Belarus's interests are concerned, the best model of
cooperation with our Eastern partner would be a full-scale zone of free
trade, without any limitations. We should have an adequate customs border,
where the trade of goods from third countries would be regulated.
This would help us have the same agreements with Ukraine and the EU. If we
opt for a customs union, it would be extre mely difficult, or even
impossible, to have a similar union with the EU.
(Amelyushkin) Speaking of NATO and the EU on the one side and the
Commonwealth of Independent States and the Collective Security Treaty
Organization on the other, does Belarus need to choose a vector between
these blocks or should it remain neutral?
(Romanchuk) I think that the choice of vectors is the old way of thinking
characteristic of the Cold War era. I personally believe that Belarus
should be a member of the EU, but this is a long journey that we should
begin by honoring basic political and civic requirements, such as our
membership in the Council of Europe and meeting the requirements of this
organization, and acquiring the status of market economy. Moreover, we
would need to carry out extensive negotiations to join the WTO and to sign
a strategic agreement with the EU, which would help our country prepare
for full EU membership.
These processes could take several decades . But at the same time we need
a zone of free trade with Russia, so that we do not ruin the progress we
have achieved in the Russian market and do not lose this market. I would
rather not mix these things together and would separate free trade and
investments from the membership in the Collective Security Treaty
Organization. As the events in Kyrgyzstan have shown, the Collective
Security Treaty Organization is not working. And it is not likely that it
will start working in the future.
Speaking of NATO, I believe that Belarus should be a neutral country. I am
for soft neutrality, which means that the Belarusian Armed Forces would
cooperate with various military blocks. If we upgrade the level of
Belarus's participation in joint programs with NATO at least to the level
of Russia and Ukraine, it would be a considerable addition to our
cooperation with the West.
(Amelyushkin) The Belarusian Government has declared its friendship with
Venezuela and is expecti ng oil from it. As we know, China is also on the
agenda. What do you think about that?
(Romanchuk) The most important thing was to make China know that it is on
somebody's agenda. We should be an adequate partner first. Belarus has
only one indicator in common with China -- the number of accountants in
Belarus is 45,000, which is the same number of accountants China has. The
Chinese are business-minded and pragmatic people, and if they decide to
give or credit us money, they will invest their money into the
acquisitions of real property, commercial objects, and so forth. The
Chinese are interested in purchasing some shares in B elaruskali (producer
and supplier of potash mineral fertilizers), but they will drive a hard
The Venezuela issue depends on the situation. I think that the love
relationship with (Venezuelan President Hugo) Chavez will fade away very
soon, when we start the actual calculations. The fact that Belarus has
paid more than $8 00 per 1 metric ton of oil looks more like a scheme to
strip Belarus of its money than a plan to ensure stable work of the
Belarusian oil refining sector.
If we can buy oil for $400 per 1 metric ton from a neighbor, why buy for
$800 from far away? There is no logic in that. Lukashenka is not the man
who would pay a double price or overpay somebody; this is why it is
obvious that there must be some logic that has to do with the money. The
same situation is with Iran and Libya. These are the resources that cannot
modernize the Belarusian economy. These are rather nomenclature projects.
(Amelyushkin) What role should Lithuania play in Belarus's foreign and
economic policies and what is your opinion about the current contacts
between Belarus and Lithuania?
(Romanchuk) We should be friends with Lithuania because this country is
our neighbor. We should cooperate as close as possible on various levels
-- economic, societal, and political. I see Lithuania as one of our key
advocates in the EU. When we have democracy in the country, we will set a
course for membership in the EU. Lithuanian politicians and diplomats,
those have the needed experience, could help us solve a number of
Lithuanian businesses are operating in Belarus. Some people are profiting
from that, big Lithuanian businesses are operating in Belarus -- (owned by
Vladimir) Romanov and (Bronislovas) Lubys. These businessmen believe that
it is possible to have amicable unofficial agreements with Lukashenka, to
block competition, even from Lithuania. I believe that such a model of
cooperation with the Belarusian Government does not have any future, both
European and Russian businessmen have already suffered because of such a
situation. I would rather create a level playing field for everyone in
Belarusian-Lithuanian cooperation.
Lukashenka would like to "buy" loyalty of the Lithuanian political elite,
to make them soften thei r attitude toward him and help him promote his
position in Brussels. On the other hand, he does not want to sign an
agreement on the 50-kilometer zone (simplified visa procedures for
residents of the border region), which could help our countries much more
than any declarations. The people would see how their neighbors live. Once
the Belarusians see Maxima (Lithuanian chain of supermarkets) and
Akropolis (Lithuanian chain of shopping malls), they will start asking
questions why Belarus does not have such objects.
There is a huge potential for cooperation, but it is barely used. We need
to learn many things, but I do not want this model of cooperation with big
Lithuanian businesses to be above civic society, small businesses, and so
(Amelyushkin) What should be Belarus's relations with Russia?
(Romanchuk) I believe that relations with all our neighbors should be
priority relations and that they should be honest and open. Considering
our situ ation, it is impossible for us to have political unions, such as
allied states or a common economic zone. We should start with creating
four basic freedoms: free movement of goods, money, services, and the
working force. This would test the seriousness of the intentions and the
goodwill of the neighbors.
I would like to reestablish the customs border and establish the VAT
payment regime that exists in Lithuania, which would make the life of
businesses easier. Furthermore, we have to ask Russia to sign an agreement
that would be based on the WTO norms and standards. It is important to
understand that we do not need to join the WTO together with Russia and
We should start living together with Russia honestly and openly. When we
engage in a n open privatization, I am against privileged treatment of
foreign companies, etc. Everything should be done in accordance with the
law, and we should monitor the situation to ensure that the money is
transpar ent, and that this is not the money that could influence the
course of political processes in the country.
(Amelyushkin) How likely is it for an opposition candidate to win? Are the
Belarusians ready to have another president? Opinion polls show that
Lukashenka is still quite popular in the country.
(Romanchuk) As I have already mentioned, 51 percent of Belarusians would
like to have a new president. This is why the Belarusians are much more
ready (for a new president) than they were five years ago, which means
democratic candidates have a chance.
We should not be assuming that Belarus will have 15 candidates for
president. An official election date has not been announced yet, the
presidential election campaign has not been launched yet, and those who
announce their participation in the election either want to advertise
themselves or to attract attention to themselves. There will be three
democratic candidates who will manage to collect 100,000 supp ort
signatures in Belarus, not more.
I have the potential to do that. I think that after we register our
candidacies, we will sit down together and elect one candidate out of all
the democratic candidates, so that there is Lukashenka and there is a
democratic candidate. Unfortunately, one democratic candidate is
stubbornly refusing to strike an agreement and has decided to run for the
post. This is Alyaksandr Milinkevich. I think that politically he is
similar to (Vladimir) Zhirinovskiy in Russia.
(Amelyushkin) What is your current pre-election slogan?
(Romanchuk) For the time being, our slogan is the following: "Let Us
Create Something New, and Preserve the Best That We Already Have." This
means that the Belarusians do not want to destroy and break things, they
are against revolutions, but they are ready to do something new and
something better than they have now. Background Information
Romanchuk has been nominated to run for presi dent by the opposition
United Civic Party of Belarus; he is a deputy chairman of the party.
In the past, Romanchuk used to work as economic commentator for
Belaruskaya Gazeta. Later on he was the chief specialist of the Commission
for Economic Policy and Reforms at the Supreme Council.
Romanchuk is the director of the Research and Development Center Mizesa.
He is a founder of the Belarusian school of liberal sustainable
development and is an author of over 1,000 articles and six books on
economics. He is one of the developers of the Anti-Crisis Platform of the
United Democratic Forces of Belarus.
According to the information published on the webpage of the United
Democratic Forces of Belarus, the economic program of the candidate for
president includes "a plan to create 1 million jobs and to ensure that the
wages grow to $600 (per month) by 2013."
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Danske Bank Revises Lithuania's GDP Growth Forecasts Upwards
"Danske Bank Forecasts 0.9 Percent GDP Growth for Lithuania in 2010" --
BNS headline - BNS
Thursday July 29, 2010 13:48:34 GMT
This is an upward revision from the bank's previous forecast of a 2.2
percent contraction in 2010.
In its latest Baltic macroeconomic outlook report, Danske Bank predicted
that Lithuania's exports will rise by 15.6 percent in 2010, 13.2 percent
in 2011 and 8.3 percent in 2012.
"Exports will remain the key driver of Lithuania's economic recovery, it
Danske Bank is one of the biggest banks in Scandinavia and Western Europe.
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Lithuania's Consumer Confidence Index up 5 Points in Jul
"Lithuanian Consumer Confidence Rises 5 Points in Jul From Jun" -- BNS
headline - BNS
Thursday July 29, 2010 14:05:36 GMT
It attributed the growth to a significant improvement in consumers'
perception of the country's economic outlook, as well as improved
expectations as to the financial situation of their households.
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Regarding the OK "sweep"
Submitted by blazeofglory on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 21:59Regarding the Oklahoma "sweep" tonight. I made a comment with my new account (been a long time lurker) and was basically called a Romney plant. This is what it said.
"I hate to burst everyone's bubble here but, aleph0 is right in that ALL of Oklahoma's delegates are bound for all rounds of voting at the national convention according to state party rules (disregarding rule 38 because I don't think it applies or will fly at the national convention even if it did). However, since Santorum(14) and Gingrich(13) dropped out I believe their delegates can vote for whoever they want even during the first round (though I might be wrong about this, they could possibly now be bound to Romney, I'm not sure, have to look up state party rules) . So what that means is we have picked up a POSSIBLE 27 votes in the first round and following rounds."
Romney won 13 delegates and I'm not sure how the 3 party leader delegates will vote.
I'd like to add these two points too. The talk of changing state party rules to unbind delegates so they can vote for Paul is wrong. I am pretty sure the RNC has a rule against such a thing and will not allow it. Elections have already taken place and therefore delegates are held to the state party rules that existed at the time of the election or when they were submitted to the RNC.
All of this depends on the RNC recognizing that the convention held earlier was done and adjourned illegally and that the Paul convention later (lets call it what it is) was done legally and they recognize it. I believe in 2008 in Nevada when a similar thing happened, the RNC did not recognize the Paul convention.
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My undestanding of Rule 38
is that the binding of ENTIRE delegations is not permitted by the National organization. To get around this the individual states apply to the RNC it's rules when they apply for inclusion in the primary or caucus system. Look at Phillippe's letter to the Nevada State GOP for reference to this. When the individual states wish to get around the Unit Rule they merely have their Super Delegates , whom they know are party loyalist, included in the unit and they are free to vote for anyone they wish,nod, nod, wink, wink. They are claiming however that all other delegates are bound under the rules submitted to the RNC. The inclusion of the Super Delegate's is going to be their reason to ignore Rule 38 of the National's rules. It's all about the way the rules were submitted by the state to the national.
There are no politicians or bankers in foxholes.
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Did we still have a quorum
Did we still have a quorum when the Roms left the OK convention?
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the requirement for a quorum
the requirement for a quorum was 100 delegates and there were over 300 in the parking lot
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2 Schools of thought I have seen on this:
1. Nobody ever actually called for a quorum, so it wasn't needed.
2. Even if someone had called for quorum, since the credentials report was never properly approved, the quorum wasn't established until the convention moved outdoors.
Hopefully we are right on both counts.
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I dont
I don't know about you guys but the GOP has been breaking some major rules and the "romney victory" illegal bonding the RNC is engaged in with romney is an outrage, its a crime by finance law and against the rules that are the backbone of what is or was the republican party.
Its not acceptable by any measure.
Do we know the principals of war? Devide and Conquer.
This is war I guess. People are tired of this crap.
Ron Paul has critical mass.
I understand that bringing the republican party back to its roots was the goal.
But the party establishment has ensured that will not be the case this go round.
My point is they cannot devide us. We should become the party for the Republic and swallow this bogus two party system they feed. We are big enough. I don't think we can lose.
Ron Paul cannot ever lose my support no matter what.
But I can say its getting quite difficult to be part of the GOP when I dont support any of their actions.
Don't hate the player, hate the game!!!
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You lost any...
credibility when you said "..because I don't think it applies". Followed by "though I might be wrong about this, they could possibly now be bound to Romney, I'm not sure,"!
I suggest you know for sure and then provide facts.. Or state beforehand that this is merely your opinion...
When Fascism goes to sleep, it checks under the bed for Ron Paul!
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This article is a perfect example of what is corruption
A Party divided is a party that will fall.
I asked the person who claimed at my last Republican Central Committe meeting, that they were going to be the delegate for Romney, "Why don't I see any Romney yard signs or bumper stickers?" They say, the campaign hasn't sent them any. They don't appear very happy with their campaign. Bet they vote for Ron Paul. My camapaign signs compete with home made Ron Paul signs (I have no idea who put them up).
The same meeting, a guest showed up. They wouldn't say who they liked Romney or Paul.. leaning for Romney. I wouldn't shut up about Ron Paul. So finally, they pull out two Ron Paul campaign buttons (Apparently people were vending in the parking lots of the UCs Ron's been visiting, as this person claims they were at the meeting in Davis and it was awesome.) Now there's two, and I'll find more.
Wee the people want Ron Paul. If the establishment insists Romney by playing musical rules, (which ever rule fits the establishment and not the people, the establishment is going to find out we don't need them). Truth is pouring like rain, and those who seek truth and peace are "morphing" to Ron Paul.
For all the faults of the Ron Paul campaign, we are winning and we know it. Get Romney out of the way and let us go after Obama (which is what you really don't want, eh?).
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This discussion is getting old - the OP is wrong
As I've stated in this comment:
" ...it doesn't matter what a State's rules declare - once you have reached the National Convention, the main Convention's rules supersede and overrule any before it. It must, or there would be far too many ways to undermine the National vote! You do see why that has to be, right?"
"As to interpretation of the rules; this is the only thing that has similarities to how our laws are interpreted ... with precedent from Case Law and rulings of Counsel. If what Ben read from is a true, verbatim document released by the RNC's own legal counsel, that is the ruling everyone must follow unless it is challenged."
The statement by the RNC's legal counsel (Jennifer Sheehan) WAS in reference to a Delegate's desire to vote for someone other than the winner of the Primary in the NATIONAL Convention. She stated, "The National Convention allows Delegates to vote for the individual of their choice"
There is no need to speculate on "If that is what she meant" or "The RNC won't go for that!"
How much more do you need to be convinced?
Maybe an email from Ms Sheehan to you ... personally?
I'll leave you with this:
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TROLL Alert!
This guy is a Romney plant. There have been a lot more of these folks on here lately.
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Spreading Disinfo
I think you need to go out in a blaze of glory. For being in the DP only 2 hours and 14 minutes, you sure have managed to spread a lot of negativity and disinformation.
Let's see, we have a standing 1964 ruling by the RNC regarding Rule 38 clearly stating that delegates at the national convention are free to vote their preferences. We have an RNC legal opinion from 2008 that essentially reiterates that decision. And, we have a lengthy FairVote.org analysis that reaches the same conclusion.
But you're trying to convince us otherwise and seem surprised that some in here consider you to be a Romney plant.
Ron Paul - Honorary Founding Father
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New delegate map
Came across
This map showing delegate count on front porch politics
Shows romney with 587 Paul 148 Unknown or unbound 247
Santorum 226 and newt 126 map colors a bit bias with three colors if blue makes it hard to see all Paul's wins
Also article on Rnc unbounding delegates. Hope it's of help
GO RON PAUL u will ve our next president
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what idiot Rmoney hack
said Santorum and Gingrich delegates could be bound to Romney.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Here is the answer for you - NO.
That my friend is impossible, unless Romney pulled a Ron Paul with ground force and won them.
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Of course it's possible if
Of course it's possible if the state party rules say so. I don't know the Oklahoma state party rules with regard to the delegates of candidates who drop out and release them. Though they haven't been release yet and probably won't be until the national convention.
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The reality is, that in a
The reality is, that in a free society, no one can dictate how or for whom you vote, reagrdless of the circumstances. So all this hoopla of bound and unbound is a mute point. When you step in the booth and close the curtain, it is YOUR vote.
If my need to be RIGHT is greater than my desire for TRUTH, then I will not recognize it when it arrives ~ Libertybelle
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no because
no because national party rules say they can't.
National Party rules strictly forbid State Party Orgs from in any way changing the process of delegate selection that is outlined by the national rules.
See Nevada Ron Paul convention, they would not even unbind thier delegates because the National said they could be booted from the convention. Big no no.
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That is not what was
That is not what was discussed yesterday at our meet up and our local GOP liaison (28 yrs. experience in the GOP and RP convert) was telling all of us what I just wrote. So, if he's wrong and I am wrong and you are wrong, then, it seems none of really KNOWS squat...we just think we do.
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Sorry, but I just don't think
Sorry, but I just don't think that's true.
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The RNC made things quite clear in '08.
To me anyway, Ben Swann's assessment is the best. Let's hope this is the case. After all why even have delegates if they are 'bound' to a party
In Liberty
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delegates can't be bound that would be considered an election
Primaries and Caucus are not elections, they nominate, they are straw polls with no force.
The only elections that can be held are general elections held by the state.
A party does not even have to have a caucus or primary to nominate a candidate .
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National elegates from every state (all fifty)......
Are not bound on the first round and can vote for anyone they please even if thar individual candidate/nominee is not on the ballot! This was stated per the legal council for the National RNC in the year 2010. Look it up. This is in fact the bottom line. Each National Delegate is considered a "Free Agent" and can vote as they please and for whom they please.
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Sorry, but I just don't think
Sorry, but I just don't think that's true.
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You don't think it's true......
Research it and you will discover that what I'm saying is absolutely true. Please do not speculate but find out for sure.
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Of course they can be bound,
Of course they can be bound, read the state party and national party rules.
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Everything you said
is totally correct. The delegates bound to Gingrich and Santorum are still bound to them however because neither has released their delegates, and they probably won't do so until the convention. We DID however win in Oklahoma, because these delegates will NOT vote for Romney. When the convention boils down to a 1v1, any delegate not voting for Romney is basically a vote for Paul.
All this BS about Rule 38 is from people only reading part of the rules. States bind their delegates to move up the GOP primary calendar and the RNC HAS threatened to not seat delegates that are unbound after the primaries are held. This is why the delegates were not bound in many earlier states. This doesn't prevent us from abstaining at the convention, preventing Romney from reaching the 1144 is our largest goal. As soon as that 2nd and 3rd round delegates are allowed to switch over, we win. It's important we have the alternates to the convention so they can't just replace the delegates who abstain.
Be real guys, the RNC knows what we're doing and will try everything to stop us. We have to work within the rules THEY set and to be honest, we're doing a good job of it.
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that's correct
There is no one way things certainly will work out.
EVERY convention has this.
Just like the Tea Party Express wasn't actually endorsing Ron Paul...rather using Ron Paul's ability to draw a crowd so as to push for their own agenda.
Nothing wrong with that.
Just as there is nothing wrong with Ron Paul doing whatever he can to steer clear of RNC and Romney obstruction.
He can't know what the other side will do, he just can be certain none of it will be fair.
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Thank you for backing me up
Thank you for backing me up here. I disagree with you that the Gingrich and Santorum delegates will vote for Ron however, I think they will fall in line with Romney. The Rule 38 thing really seems like grasping at straws in desperation to me. The abstaining thing is legitimate it seems, but I doubt we will have enough delegates on our side for that to even matter. Also, getting to a second round of votes (which by my calculations is very unlikely) doesn't guarantee us a victory like so many people seem to think. I am trying to get the real cold hard facts out there about Oklahoma in this particular instance and most people on here insult me. There is a reason there is are negative stereotypes for RP supporters, sometimes it's true.
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your not very smart
No the delegates aren't bound. Tonight they swept all delegates. Yes
they can vote for who they want. They can vote there conscious. They might break there state rule, but they aren't breaking GOP rule. They could be kicked out of the GOP in there state. That is the worse that can happen. The problem at the GOP convention is if they disqualify a person. The next person that steps in will be a Ron Paul supporter. They lose either way.
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It should be mandatory to use proper spelling
when calling someone else dumb or an idiot. Pot meet kettle?
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Don't worry about it
The people here who have slammed you exist here and only here.
They don't actually do anything for Ron Paul's campaign.
They are, in other words, nothing to concern yourself with and in fact, quite the nothings in all ways.
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On Wednesday, Maria Carrillo, a senior editor at the Houston Chronicle, spent a lot of time on the phone with her mother, a Cuban exile. "I am an American, born here, raised here, never been to the island where my parents were born. But those are my people, as surely as if I'd toddled into the surf at Varadero or spent summer nights along the Malecón. And this has all been painful to watch. We are separated — by that embargo, by politics, by distance, by time. We've been waiting and waiting and waiting." (Houston Chronicle) | CNN's Patrick Oppmann is based in Havana. "Church bells ringing in Havana. Covering history..." (@CNN_Oppmann)
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Re:LOPSA/LISA Code of Ethics (246 comments)
I'd say David is fairly spot on. The only additional thing I recommend is when arranging to do work on any computer is to ensure the users know to close any sensitive documents and save all their work to relieve any responsibility in this area.
Whats changed? (124 comments)
I have a Nokia Win 8 phone, and I can't install any alternative browser to IE or change the default search engine. Should I be entitled to a refund?
Re:LaserJet II and LaserJet 3 (702 comments)
I'm putting in a vote for the LaserJet 1000 as well. HP really knew how to make virtually maintenance free printers.
The future is now (235 comments)
"FaceCop! Nobody move or there will be.... trouble"
Sounds like an excuse... (59 comments)
.. to lobby more 'infrastructure' grants from the government. All that data doesn't keep itself on-line.
wait a minute.... (56 comments)
How is it that Microsoft has the technical know how to sanitize chinese searches, yet not sanitize the english ones of blatant porn?
Re:So this is the way it ends (564 comments)
This is what happens when Microsoft tries to turn its OS into a thing for smart phones: the industry replaces it with a working OS for smartphones.
Re:I was in a similar role (383 comments)
For a moment I thought you might be one of my previous bosses.
The system described by OP is very similar to my last position.... except we had about 300 users across APAC in various factories. ERP integrated into everything, including robotics on the assembly lines.
Two Engineers and 1 outsourced ERP consultant got the job done. When Engineering wasn't fixing routine problems, it was contributing software - either manufacturing, ERP or middleware.
You company management is probably correct. Too much staff in the wrong places. Need a receptionist? Get an SD application.
Microsoft's relationship with XBOX confuses me (292 comments)
I would have thought (as a non-owner) that the X-BOX represents one of MS' victories in the consumer space. I wonder sometimes if MS hadn't just made their phone UI more like X-BOX they would have had a highly successful product.
And X-BOX represents an excellent PR opportunity through-out MS' range of products. It introduces consumers to a working, easy to use computer system that builds confidence in their product line and makes them relevant in every living room. I don't understand why companies keep hiring the same bad decision makers.
Ye Olde Bookseller in the 21st Century! (176 comments)
As someone who needs to read a lot for their job, I find the definition of a book does not necessarily imply a square block made out of slivers of paper. In fact, any of the things like that that I have obtained in recent memory suffer due to lack of portability - I don't have enough additional carrying capacity to keep a book geographically close to myself for times when I want to read it.
If only there was a way for book stores to sell digital versions of the text with the item.... just like they did 12 years ago when I last had to buy an assload of textbooks.
To be fair, I don't own a Kindle. Why would I? I have notebook computers and smart phones and tablets, projectors and text-to-speech applications. Hell, even graphic calculators. I mean, you would HAVE to be blind to actually consider crappy-ass Kindles a realistic threat to your business in the wake of the countless other alternatives to read electronically.
Re:bulls!@$ (53 comments)
So I guess you could call it the Media Whore Factor (MWF), or, the breadth and depth of data exposed to during a sitting rather than the quantity of media consumed.
So, someone skimming Reddit would have a far greater MWF than, say, someone watching Fox NEWS. This might be another way of indicating the relative worthlessness of conventional media that tend to drive viewers through a set of topics of subjectively varying interest.
I still call BS on this, however. I suspect there is a saturation limit on attention and information density, which this study doesn't seem to take into account. As someone else pointed out, extrapolation gone mad.
That doesn't make sense in the context of Apple (214 comments)
Hell, just to make my damn phone work I need an iTunes subscription. That ties my phone to my credit card. Then they start spamming me with music suggesting software. They provide software so that police can remotely suck all the data off it. They release back doors so that even if my company remotely bricks it, I can restore my last backup and keep running.
I think its fair to say, Apple's business model very much relies on them being able to collect user data, or to connect users to ways they can share data.
If what they say is true, the iPhone would be an open platform that let me install what I wanted, rather than existing in this walled Apple Only Garden
Re:How about SourceForge? (104 comments)
HEY! HEY! We want flexible tools, not a bunch of malware! Consider hosting your own FTP?
Re:Good (336 comments)
Ever since SourceForge started their "8 bonus pieces of malware with every legitimate open source software download" offer, my computer has run like shit. I welcome our new FTP overlords!
As someone who was a 15 year old boy... (726 comments)
... when Starship Troopers came out, I find it reassuring that 'American critics' are finally able to comprehend the humor of this film. Its only taken 16 years for them to get the joke, but better late than never, right? And is it any wonder that the public's view of professional critics is so poor? Should 15 year old boys be put in charge of this, clearly very challenging job? Is there something slightly 'special' about American critic's sense of humor that prevents them from seeing such an obviously tongue-in-cheek parody of extreme imperialism?
Not really transparent then... is it? (93 comments)
What is Apple attempting to achieve by releasing a non-transparent transparency report? Its hardly 'full disclosure', possibly to the point of false marketing, in accordance with Investopedia's definition of the topic: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/transparency.asp
I think you've got your games a bit mixed up (374 comments)
Myst was, at least to many of my friends, Return to Zork's slightly retarded cousin. The presentation was very similar, yet somewhat more isolated due to a lack of other characters in the world. Elements like Zork's sound recording puzzle were brilliant, and aside from a brutally challenging second last puzzle (if you had dropped any items throughout the game, it could not be beaten) the level of challenge would not be seen again until Access released it's Tex Murphy series with Under a Killing Moon in 1994. For a time adventure style games lulled, but with the rise of companies like Telltale the format is being somewhat revived. 2014 will see a new Tex Murphy instalment
It was not just the unique puzzles that made RTZ a brilliant title, but the inclusion of FMV in a way that rewarded the player but didn't sacrifice to much content at the expense of their inclusion. FMV, at the time, was quite popular, but was often an 'all or nothing' affair. On top of this, video codecs were in their infancy, meaning a minute of data ate up a considerable chunk of a disc. So for RTZ to offer hours upon hours of gameplay in addition to FMV, all on a single disc, was simply remarkable.
So what was Myst's legacy? Beats me. It did nothing that hadn't been done already.
Well, you know how the expression goes... (286 comments)
The land of the watched, and home of the scared.
Sound move. (219 comments)
So, I don't get it. Does that mean everyone in Diablo 3 gets their gear reset? 2 years seems like an amazing amount of time for a game to be released yet still clearly be in Beta.
Does PC get any other updates, like evade rolls, or larger portraits of toons? Sounds like Blizzard is attempting to completely gimp their PC version now to raise sales on console offerings.
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Boud has completed the fourth installment of her project, the 2014 "It's All Butch," calendar. Take a look at some of her awesome photos below. You can buy a calendar or view more of her work here.
Thanks to The Huffington Post
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Bible in Basic English (BBE) | New International Version (NIV) |
15 He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe. | 15 He who puts up security for another will surely suffer, but whoever refuses to strike hands in pledge is safe. |
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