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TURKMENISTAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Daria Solovieva (dsolovieva@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 13:45:06 EDT
President Saparmurat Niyazov threatened on 5 April to fire Economy and
Finance Minister Yazguly Kakaliyev unless the minister pays back wages to
state employees within one week, Turkmen Television reported the same day.
According to Niyazov, wage arrears as of 1 April totaled 1.49 billion manats
($287 million). Niyazov also docked Health Minister Gurbanguly
Berdymuhammedov three months' pay for allowing wage arrears to build up in
the health-care sector. Niyazov gave the ministers until 8 April to present him
with a written proposal describing how they will solve the problem. DK
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