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We are committed to reviving

and completing the divestiture of our remaining state

enterprises, in close cooperation with the World Bank. In

particular, we will dispose of the remaining state shares in

Latvijas Gaze and Krajbanka by mid-2002. We will adopt, by

end-2001, guidelines for the privatization of the Latvian

Shipping Company (LASCO) to allow for its sale to take place in