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Vol. 4, No. 114, 13 June 2000

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[A] TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

[01] ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT MAJORITY REJECTS ELECTION LAW REFORM

[02] ARMENIA FREES AZERBAIJANI POW

[03] EMBATTLED AZERBAIJANI EDITOR TO SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM ABROAD

[04] ADJAR LEADER, FORMER CP FIRST SECRETARY IMPLICATED IN

[05] GEORGIA REJECTS CHECHEN REFUGEES' REQUEST TO BE RESETTLED

[06] GEORGIAN PRESIDENT NAMES NEW CANDIDATE FOR AGRICULTURE

[07] ...DENIES HIS HEALTH IS FAILING

[08] GEORGIAN SPECIAL POLICE DISPERSE DISPLACED PERSONS' PROTEST

[09] GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTY AGAIN ACCUSES GUERRILLAS OF

[10] BOMB DEFUSED IN GEORGIAN CAPITAL

[11] TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS KAZAKHSTAN

[12] DISPUTED KYRGYZ ROUNDTABLE HOLDS CONCLUDING SESSION...

[13] ...AS POLICE DETAIN, BEAT PICKET PARTICIPANTS

[14] UZBEK PRESIDENT APPEALS TO PAKISTAN TO HELP MEDIATE END TO

[B] SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

[15] KOUCHNER UPBEAT ON UNMIK'S RECORD...

[16] ...SEES UN IN KOSOVA FOR LONG HAUL

[17] ...IS DOWN ON DIENSTBIER

[18] KOSOVAR DAILY REAPPEARS AFTER BAN

[19] PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN MONTENEGRIN VOTE

[20] MILOSEVIC GIVES LI PENG MEDAL

[21] DRASKOVIC BACKERS VISIT CHINA

[22] SERBIAN PRESIDENT UNVEILS MONUMENT FOR 1999 WAR

[23] SERBIAN OPPOSITION FORMS MEDIA COMMITTEE

[24] TUDJMAN GETS SQUARE IN SPLIT

[25] POLICE INVESTIGATE CROATIA'S MAIN SOCCER CLUBS

[26] FORMER ROMANIAN PRESIDENT BALKS AT TESTIFYING OVER MONEY-

[27] ROMANIAN POLITICAL MAP ABOUT TO CHANGE?

[28] NEW POLITICAL PARTY SET UP IN MOLDOVA

[29] MOLDOVAN PARLIAMENT PUTS BORDER TREATY WITH UKRAINE ON

[30] BULGARIANS PRAY FOR MEDICS ON TRIAL IN LIBYA

[C] END NOTE

[31] ELECTORAL YEAR KICKS OFF IN ROMANIA

[A] TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

[01] ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT MAJORITY REJECTS ELECTION LAW REFORM

authored by five minority factions that would have

significantly increased the proportion of parliament mandates

allocated under the proportional system, RFE/RL's Yerevan

bureau reported. The Communist, Dashnaktsutiun, and Orinats

Yerkir parties as well as the National Democratic Union and

the Right and Accord bloc (which have eight, eight, six,

seven, and seven deputies, respectively) had proposed

amending the present ratio of mandates allocated under the

proportional and majoritarian systems from 56:75 to 101:30.

If adopted, that amendment would have increased their chances

of greater representation in the next parliament. LF

[02] ARMENIA FREES AZERBAIJANI POW

June released an Azerbaijani serviceman taken prisoner in

July 1999 near Goradiz, close to the Azerbaijani-Iranian

border, Turan reported. LF

[03] EMBATTLED AZERBAIJANI EDITOR TO SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM ABROAD

and the journal "Monitor Weekly," told Turan on 13 June that

he intends to approach an unnamed Western embassy in Baku to

request political asylum. He said that decision was prompted

by ongoing harassment from the Azerbaijani authorities. The

Baku tax police sealed those publications' premises last

month (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 10 May 2000). Employees were

allowed to enter the offices again on the morning of 12 June,

but the premises were sealed again after they left at the end

of the day. Also on 12 June, a Baku district court rejected

Huseinov's suit against the district tax office. LF

[04] ADJAR LEADER, FORMER CP FIRST SECRETARY IMPLICATED IN

Former Georgian Interior

Ministry official Otar Melikidze has accused Adjar State

Council Chairman Aslan Abashidze and former Georgian

Communist Party First Secretary Djumber Patiashvili of

participating in plans, foiled in May 1999, to assassinate

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and seize power in

Georgia, Caucasus Press reported on 13 June, citing "Eco-

Digest" (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 24 May 1999). Melikidze has

since reportedly retracted that accusation, saying that he

made it "under physical and psychological pressure." LF

[05] GEORGIA REJECTS CHECHEN REFUGEES' REQUEST TO BE RESETTLED

Caucasus Press on 12 June that neither the Georgian

government nor the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

considers it expedient to build a tent camp elsewhere in

Georgia for the Chechen refugees now living in Georgia's

Pankisi gorge. Those refugees last week petitioned the

Georgian government to resettle them anywhere in Georgia on

the grounds that they are held responsible for an upsurge in

criminal activities in the gorge (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 9

June 2000). President Shevardnadze similarly said on 12 June

that he does not consider the refugees' presence in the gorge

a destabilizing factor. LF

[06] GEORGIAN PRESIDENT NAMES NEW CANDIDATE FOR AGRICULTURE

Shevardnadze told journalists in Tbilisi on12

June that he will propose that the parliament endorse the

candidacy of its Agriculture Committee Chairman David

Kirvalidze as minister of agriculture, Caucasus Press

reported. He characterized Kirvalidze as "a talented man and

a good farmer." Kirvalidze has been one of the fiercest

critics of former Agriculture Minister Bakur Gulua, a

longtime Shevardnadze associate, whose reappointment to that

post deputies rejected last month (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 25

May 2000). LF

[07] ...DENIES HIS HEALTH IS FAILING

radio broadcast on 12 June, Shevardnadze rejected as

"psychological sabotage" rumors that he is gravely ill,

Caucasus Press reported. He ordered the law enforcement

agencies to take tough measures against persons who

disseminate such rumors, which he described as intended to

undermine Georgia's statehood. LF

[08] GEORGIAN SPECIAL POLICE DISPERSE DISPLACED PERSONS' PROTEST

disperse a group of some 300 displaced persons who were

picketing the Constitutional Court, Caucasus Press reported.

The displaced Georgians, who had fled Abkhazia during the

1992-1993 war, were demanding payment of allowances overdue

for the past four months and new initiatives by the Georgian

government to restore its jurisdiction over Abkhazia.

Minister for Refugees Vashakidze said the same day that the

displaced persons' allowances for February will be paid by 14

June and that the Georgian authorities have earmarked 3.5

million lari ($1.8 million) to repay the arrears. Displaced

persons receive 11 lari a month, LF

[09] GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTY AGAIN ACCUSES GUERRILLAS OF

Speaking at a press conference in Tbilisi on 12

June, parliamentary deputy Tengiz Jgushia again accused Dato

Shengelia, one of the leaders of the "Forest Brothers"

guerrilla organization operating in western Georgia, of

controlling smuggling operations from Abkhazia to Georgia,

Caucasus Press reported (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 9 June 2000).

Jgushia added that neither regional governor Bondo Djikia nor

the local police are able to prevent Shengelia and his

estimated 50 men from "terrorizing" the population of the

west Georgian region of Mingrelia. Local residents, Jgushia

said, have been reduced to a state of "despair." On 13 June,

"Alia" quoted Zurab Samushia, who heads the White Legion

guerrillas, as denying that his men are engaged in smuggling.

LF

[10] BOMB DEFUSED IN GEORGIAN CAPITAL

June found and defused a time bomb containing 1.5 kilograms

of explosives under a staircase in a department store close

to the city's main railway station, Caucasus Press reported.

The Security Ministry has begun an investigation. LF

[11] TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS KAZAKHSTAN

with Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev in

Astana on 12 June for talks focusing on Kazakhstan's possible

agreement to export oil via the planned Baku-Ceyhan pipeline.

Energy analysts believe that the Azerbaijani sector of the

Caspian cannot produce enough crude to render the Baku-Ceyhan

pipeline economically viable but that recent test drilling

indicates that Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan field contains

reserves large enough to warrant the $2.4 billion investment

the project will require (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 May

2000). Reuters quoted Toqaev as repeating Kazakhstan's

earlier position that it will select export pipelines

depending on which becomes operational soonest. He noted that

the Caspian Pipeline Consortium project will be completed in

late 2001, while Baku-Ceyhan cannot be finished before 2004

at the earliest. LF

[12] DISPUTED KYRGYZ ROUNDTABLE HOLDS CONCLUDING SESSION...

second and last session of the roundtable discussion between

the Kyrgyz authorities, opposition parties, and NGOs was held

in Bishkek on 12 June, RFE/RL's bureau in the Kyrgyz capital

reported. The first round took place on 8 June. Addressing

the gathering, President Askar Akaev solicited suggestions

from opposition parties on measures to stabilize the

political and economic situation. He said those suggestions

will be incorporated into a development program for 2001-2002

that will be drafted by the end of this year. Akaev also

admitted that irregularities were registered in a number of

court cases connected with the conduct of the February-March

parliamentary elections, prompting him to dismiss Asanbek

Sharshanaliev as prosecutor-general. LF

[13] ...AS POLICE DETAIN, BEAT PICKET PARTICIPANTS

June detained 10 participants in the ongoing picket to demand

the annulment of the election results, RFE/RL's Bishkek

bureau reported. Some of the detainees, including two women,

were beaten. They were released after being held for four

hours, according to the Kyrgyz Human Rights Committee. On 12

June, the demonstration entered its 89th day. Meanwhile,

another group of demonstrators have appealed to the Bishkek

City Court, which on 9 June rejected its suit against 23

parliamentary deputies who had published an open letter in

April alleging that the picket participants were being paid

for their ongoing protest. The judge ruled that under the

Procedural-Criminal Code, a suit may be brought only against

an individual but not against a group of people. LF

[14] UZBEK PRESIDENT APPEALS TO PAKISTAN TO HELP MEDIATE END TO

Speaking at the 10-11 June summit in Tehran

of the Economic Cooperation Organization, Islam Karimov asked

Pakistan's Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf to promote a

peace settlement between Afghanistan's warring Taliban and

the Northern Alliance, Interfax reported. Karimov underlined

that terrorism emanating from Afghanistan is a serious threat

to his country's security and stability. LF

[B] SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

[15] KOUCHNER UPBEAT ON UNMIK'S RECORD...

heads the UN's civilian administration in Kosova (UNMIK),

said in Prishtina on 12 June that UNMIK can be proud of its

achievements during its first year of existence (see "RFE/RL

Newsline," 12 June 2000). He argued that one cannot "make a

Switzerland in 12 months" and stressed that "technically,

politically, in terms of administration, in terms of human

rights, of protection, we did a lot," an RFE/RL correspondent

reported. Kouchner also appealed for inter-ethnic tolerance:

"Kosovo must join the democracies of Europe, every one of

which respects and includes all of its minorities in their

political bodies.... [That] was the reason for our engagement

and coming in here." PM

[16] ...SEES UN IN KOSOVA FOR LONG HAUL

Prishtina on 12 June that the local elections in October will

lead to the "transfer of more responsibilities of government

to the people" of Kosova, Reuters reported. Kouchner also

appealed to members of the Serbian and Roma minorities to

register and vote to ensure their voice in the province's

future. The UN will nonetheless need to be present in Kosova

for "many years" to come, he concluded. PM

[17] ...IS DOWN ON DIENSTBIER

human rights envoy Jiri Dienstbier during his 12 June speech

in Prishtina, an RFE/RL correspondent reported. Kouchner

slammed Dienstbier for allegedly criticizing UNMIK without

first checking his facts. The former French cabinet minister

called on Dienstbier to "shut up," adding that he will not

receive the Czech diplomat. Kouchner noted that Czech

President Vaclav Havel has also been sharply critical of

Dienstbier for being outspoken but poorly informed (see

"RFE/RL Balkan Report," 23 May 2000). PM

[18] KOSOVAR DAILY REAPPEARS AFTER BAN

appeared on 13 June after a recent ban (see "RFE/RL Balkan

Report," 9 June 2000). Kouchner imposed the ban because the

daily had published an article that UNMIK called

"inflammatory." Kouchner argued that the article led to the

death of a Serbian UN employee. "Dita" wrote on 13 June that

it will continue to publish the names of persons it believes

guilty of war crimes. PM

[19] PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN MONTENEGRIN VOTE

unofficial election results show that President Milo

Djukanovic's For A Better Life coalition scored a victory in

the capital, Podgorica, with 28 out of 54 seats in the city

council, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported (see "RFE/RL

Newsline," 12 June 2000). In the smaller port town of Herceg

Novi, the Yugoslavia coalition loyal to Yugoslav President

Slobodan Milosevic is leading, with 19 out of 35 seats.

Podgorica's Mayor-elect Miomir Mugosa said that Milosevic's

support in Herceg Novi came primarily from "persons of

Serbian nationality from Bosnia and Croatia" who moved to the

port town in recent years. He added that the new arrivals

gave their votes to "the man who destroyed all that they used

to have in the places they came from before they moved to

Montenegro." PM

[20] MILOSEVIC GIVES LI PENG MEDAL

of the Great Star of Yugoslavia to visiting Chinese

parliamentary speaker Li Peng in Belgrade on 12 June,

RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported (see "RFE/RL

Newsline," 12 June 2000). The two leaders issued a joint

statement, saying that UNMIK "is being abused for the

interests of Albanian terrorists and their allies in NATO.

Under the authority of the UN, genocide against the Serbian

people and other non-Albanians is being carried out," AP

reported. The two men called for the return of Serbian forces

to the provinces. Li is the highest-ranking foreign official

to meet with Milosevic since the Hague-based war crimes

tribunal indicted him in May 1999 for atrocities in Kosova.

PM

[21] DRASKOVIC BACKERS VISIT CHINA

Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) led by Belgrade

Mayor Vojislav Mihajlovic returned from China on 12 June. SPO

spokesman Predrag Simic noted that delegates held talks with

government and business leaders in Beijing and Shanghai,

"Danas" reported. PM

[22] SERBIAN PRESIDENT UNVEILS MONUMENT FOR 1999 WAR

on 12 June, Milan Milutinovic dedicated a white obelisk

topped by an eternal flame to honor the "victims of NATO

aggression," Reuters reported. He noted that "even in the

aggressors' countries" there is an increasing number of

people who regard "NATO as the loser" of that conflict (see

"RFE/RL Newsline," 8 June 2000). PM

[23] SERBIAN OPPOSITION FORMS MEDIA COMMITTEE

all major opposition parties and coalitions, with the

exception of the SPO, agreed in Belgrade on 12 June to set up

a joint public relations committee. They also decided to

establish a body of experts to draft the principles for a

joint opposition slate in the local elections expected in the

fall or winter, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. In

addition, opposition leaders called on the West to back up

its offers of moral support for the opposition with concrete

help. The G-17 group of economists especially wants to be

able to show the electorate that it has firm plans and

pledges from the EU's Stability Pact to carry out

reconstruction. G-17 leaders called on the EU to organize a

donors' conference for a post-Milosevic Serbia, "Danas"

reported. PM

[24] TUDJMAN GETS SQUARE IN SPLIT

June to name a square after the late President Franjo

Tudjman, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. The council

also agreed to remove the name of controversial writer and

World War II government minister Mile Budak from a street. PM

[25] POLICE INVESTIGATE CROATIA'S MAIN SOCCER CLUBS

launched an investigation into irregularities in the business

affairs of Dinamo Zagreb, "Jutarnji list" reported on 13

June. Top officials of Hajduk Split are already under

investigation. PM

[26] FORMER ROMANIAN PRESIDENT BALKS AT TESTIFYING OVER MONEY-

Party of Social Democracy in Romania Chairman

(PDSR) Ion Iliescu failed on 12 June to heed a summons by the

Prosecutor-General's Office to testify in the investigation

launched on behalf of the French authorities into the Adrian

Costea money-laundering affair. PDSR Deputy Chairman Ioan

Mircea Pascu said Iliescu's agenda was "too heavy" due to the

ongoing electoral campaign. Pascu accused the investigators

of "attempting to create a false image of unwillingness to

cooperate" on Iliescu's part. He said the summons should have

been "more amiably coordinated" with Iliescu and that the

affair "is clearly being exploited for electoral purposes

directed against our party," RFE/RL's Bucharest bureau

reported. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor-General's Office

announced that it has again summoned Iliescu, who is now

required to appear on 19 June. MS

[27] ROMANIAN POLITICAL MAP ABOUT TO CHANGE?

Party (PNL) Deputy Chairman Valeriu Stoica has said the

Democratic Convention of Romania (CDR) can regain its

political predominance "only if its structure and leadership

become more pronouncedly liberal," RFE/ RL's Bucharest bureau

reported on 12 June. He proposed the setting up of a new

political alliance that would include the CDR, the Democratic

Party, and the Alliance for Romania (APR), adding that those

parties should run on joint lists for the parliamentary

elections and support a joint candidate in the presidential

ballot. Stoica also did not rule out that the PNL will again

run in the parliamentary elections on lists separate from

those of the CDR should it fail to resolve its problems. APR

Chairman Teodor Melescanu responded that the PNL must "first

distance itself from the government's and particularly from

President Constantinescu's...erroneous economic policies"

(see also "End Note" below). MS

[28] NEW POLITICAL PARTY SET UP IN MOLDOVA

Victims of the Soviet Occupational Regime and Veterans of

Romanian Army is to transform itself into a political party

and will call itself the Romanian National Party (PNR). Party

chairman Gheorghe Ghimpu said on 12 June that his formation

will demand from the Russian Federation $10.7 billion in

compensation for "the damage inflicted on Moldova during the

Soviet period." Ghimpu added that the PNR may field its own

presidential candidate in the elections due in the fall. He

also said the party has 10,000 members, RFE/RL's Chisinau

bureau reported. MS

[29] MOLDOVAN PARLIAMENT PUTS BORDER TREATY WITH UKRAINE ON

The parliament has again voted against debating

the 1999 treaty with Ukraine on settling the border dispute

between the two countries. Under that treaty, the two states

were to exchange small chunks of territory, giving Ukraine

sovereignty over a portion of a highway to Odesa that passes

through Moldovan territory in exchange for a small strip of

land leading to the River Danube, where Moldova wants to

build an oil terminal. The Party of Moldovan Communists said

it has "other constructive proposals to make," while the

Popular Party Christian Democratic called the treaty "a

fiasco for Moldovan diplomacy." The Ukrainian parliament has

ratified the treaty, and experts cited by Infotag said

Moldova's refusal to do so might result in Ukrainian

lawmakers' refusal to ratify an agreement recognizing

Moldovan properties on Ukrainian territory. MS

[30] BULGARIANS PRAY FOR MEDICS ON TRIAL IN LIBYA

people gathered outside Sofia's main cathedral on 12 June to

pray for the six Bulgarians who are due to go on trial in

Libya on charges of deliberately infecting children with the

HIV virus in a Benghazi hospital. The prayer was organized by

popular television and radio personalities as well as the

daily "24 Chasa," Reuters reported. MS

[C] END NOTE

[31] ELECTORAL YEAR KICKS OFF IN ROMANIA

The final results of the first round of Romania's local

elections were officially released on 8 June, four days after

the ballot. Reactions, however, came sooner. Just one day

after results were becoming known, politicians and political

analysts, in a rare display of unanimity, agreed that the

vote had produced a clear winner: the opposition Party of

Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR). But there was less accord

on the extent of the PDSR's victory and its implications for

"electoral year 2000."

The ballot's outcome confirmed pollsters' predictions.

Yet in the last few months, the PDSR and its leaders had

become increasingly entangled in political and legal

scandals, and some people--particularly among the ruling

coalition and its sympathizers--were obviously hoping that

these developments would either diminish or even fully

obliterate the lead that the PDSR had built up in opinion

polls. That hope was not realized, however.

The main reason seems to be the poor marks the main

coalition partners are now receiving from an electorate that

is clearly disillusioned with the change of government that

took place in 1996. Another reason is the division within the

ranks of the Democratic Convention of Romania (CDR). Four

years ago, that political umbrella included the National

Peasant Party Christian Democratic (PNTCD), the National

Liberal Party (PNL), the Romanian Alternative Party, as well

as some ecologist formations and several civic movements, the

most important of which was the Civic Alliance (MAC). The

PNTCD has in the meantime experienced several serious crises

and splits, and two former PNTCD premiers are now the leaders

of separate formations: Victor Ciorbea chairs the National

Christian Democratic Alliance (ANCD) and Radu Vasile heads

the Popular Party-National Right (PPDR). The Romanian

Alternative has changed its name to the Union of Rightist

Forces (UFD) and left the CDR. More important, the PNL chose

to run on lists separate from those of the CDR in the local

elections, as did one of the two green parties.

The ballot outcome shows that these divisions were

insufficient to produce a new electoral map but sufficient to

drastically alter political hierarchies on the right of the

political spectrum, thereby weakening rightist forces. The

ANCD, the PPDR, and the UFD are likely to sink into political

oblivion or somewhere close to it, but the CDR--or rather

what is left of it, which is, above all, the PNTCD-- has

suffered an obvious blow.

MAC's non-participation in the election campaign (after

suspending itself from the CDR to protest "politicking") also

played a role in the defeat of the rightist forces. The PNL,

on the other hand, has apparently succeeded in its goal of

demonstrating to the PNTCD that it is at least as strong as

its "sister party". In fact, it did better in the ballot than

the PNTCD, having received 9 percent backing in the mayoral

elections, some 7 percent in the ballot for county

councilors, and nearly 8 percent in the vote for local

councilors (compared with 8 percent, 7.4 percent, and 7.2

percent, respectively, for the CDR). It will now be difficult

for the PNTCD to reject an expected PNL demand for parity on

the lists for the parliamentary elections, in which the two

parties will again run jointly if their alliance survives

till then.

Local elections have only a limited use as barometers

for parliamentary elections, particularly when turnout is low

(less than 51 percent, in the case of the 8 June vote) and

even more so when most mayoral races remain to be decided in

runoffs on 18 June. The best yardstick is the outcome of the

county councilor elections (where no runoffs are to be held)

because the distribution of mandates employed in this case is

similar to that used in the parliamentary elections.

Judging by this yardstick, the PDSR's victory is not

that impressive. The party leads the field--as indeed it has

done in all local elections held to date--with 27.4 percent

of the vote, well ahead of the second-placed Democratic Party

(9.9 percent). Still, it neither commands a majority, nor can

it forge one at little expense. But a new leftist

parliamentary majority might be in the offing. Come the fall

parliamentary elections, the PDSR and the PD could easily

include the third-placed Alliance for Romania Party (7.3

percent) and the Social Democratic Party (2.2 percent)-- if

the latter manages to pass the electoral hurdle (currently 3

percent but it might be raised). Such a parliamentary

alliance comes close to a majority and could be expanded into

one by extending an invitation to another small formation.

It is to be hoped that such an offer will not be made to

the extremist Greater Romania Party (6.6 percent). The other

extremist formation represented in the parliament, the Party

of Romanian National Unity, has, like the PNTCD, suffered

numerous crises and splits and--as pollsters predicted--seems

to be on its way out of the legislature, having gained 2.3

percent in the county councilor ballot. The Hungarian

Democratic Federation of Romania, with 6.2 percent backing,

performed somewhat less well than in the 1996 parliamentary

election but remains the obvious choice of the bulk of

Romania's Magyar population.

These, however, are just the opening chords. In the

fall, the main theme is likely to be more or the less the

same, but even more strident for the CDR.

13-06-00

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