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19 Kasım g&uuml;n&uuml; Irak İş&ccedil;i Konseyleri ve Sendikaları Federasyonu'nun (FWCUI) Basra'daki genel merkezinde &ouml;nemli bir toplantı yapıldı. Toplantıda federasyona bağlı şube başkanları petrol sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde yapılacak se&ccedil;imlerle ilgili hazırlıkları g&ouml;r&uuml;şt&uuml;ler. Toplantıya petrol sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nden 36 sendika y&ouml;neticisi katıldı.
FWCUI'nin hazırlık komitesi koordinat&ouml;r&uuml; Thair Ismail'in y&ouml;nettiği toplantıya sendikanın idari ve mali işlerinden sorumlu Raiad Mahmod ve Haydar Abd Alilah ile FWCUI Petrokimya B&ouml;l&uuml;m&uuml; Sekreteri Karim Johi de katıldı. 

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Toplantıda se&ccedil;imlerle ilgili sendika &uuml;st komitesinin g&ouml;revlerini belirleyen &ouml;neri paketi hazırlandı ve bu komitenin yayımlayacağı talimata uyulması &ccedil;ağrısı yapıldı. 
 
&Ouml;neri paketinde, sendika &uuml;yelerinin federasyonu bağımsız bir &ouml;rg&uuml;t haline getirmelerini sağlayacak, kadınların federasyona bağlı sendikalara katılımlarını &ouml;zendirecek mekanizmalar &ouml;ng&ouml;r&uuml;l&uuml;yor, sendikacıların b&uuml;t&uuml;n sekt&ouml;rlerdeki iş&ccedil;ilerin faaliyetlerini desteklemeleri ve federasyonun gazetesinin b&uuml;t&uuml;n işyerlerinde yayımlanması ve dağıtılması &ccedil;ağrısı yer alıyor. 

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Toplantıda kamu sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde bağımsız sendika kurulmasını h&acirc;l&acirc; yasaklayan, 1987 tarihli ve 150 sayılı Saddam d&ouml;nemi kararnamesi ele alındı ve sendikaların &uuml;ye sayısını artırma sorunu &uuml;zerinde duruldu. FWCUI kendisine bağlı sendikaları iş&ccedil;ilerin elinde g&uuml;&ccedil;l&uuml; birer ara&ccedil; haline getirmeye &ccedil;alışıyor. is focused on making its unions power tools in the hands of workers. 
 
Toplantıdan bir hafta sonra, 5 Aralık g&uuml;n&uuml;, FWCUI, ABD ile Irak y&ouml;netimi arasında imzalanan &ldquo;G&uuml;venlik Anlaşması&rdquo;na karşı sert bir a&ccedil;ıklama yaptı. A&ccedil;ıklama anlaşmaya karşı &ccedil;ıkıyor ve anlaşmaya karşı &ccedil;ıkan Irak'taki diğer g&uuml;&ccedil;leri, &ldquo;muhalefetlerini halkı g&uuml;&ccedil;lendirecek şekilde politik alana taşımaya&rdquo; &ccedil;ağırıyor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Irak İşçi Konseyleri ve Sendikaları Federasyonu Sendika Seçimlerini Görüştü

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T&uuml;rkiye'de Unilever'in taşeron şirketlerinde &ccedil;alışan nakliyat iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikal haklarıyla ilgili uyuşmazlıkta bu ay bir gelişme kaydedildi. &Uuml;&ccedil; k&uuml;resel federasyonun -ICEM, Uluslararası Nakliyat İş&ccedil;ileri Federasyonu ITF ve Uluslararası Gıda ve Tarım İş&ccedil;ileri Federasyonu IUF- ve T&uuml;rkiye'de onlara &uuml;ye &ouml;rg&uuml;tlerin uyguladığı uluslararası baskı, uyuşmazlığın &ccedil;&ouml;z&uuml;m&uuml; y&ouml;n&uuml;nde bu ilk ve &ouml;nemli adımın atılmasına yol a&ccedil;tı. 
 
Taşeron şirketleri &Ccedil;ipa ve Şimşek'in y&ouml;netimleri Uluslararası Nakliyat Federasyonu ITF'nin &uuml;yesi T&Uuml;MTİS ile bir protokol imzalamayı kabul etti. Protokol uyuşmazlıkla ilgili bazı konuları ele alıyor. K&uuml;resel federasyonlar ile ICEM &uuml;yesi Petrol-İş ve IUF &uuml;yesi Tek-Gıda-İş'in T&uuml;rkiye'de d&uuml;zenlenen bir toplantıda bir araya gelerek Unilever'e baskı uygulama kararı almasından bir bu&ccedil;uk ay kadar sonra, Aralık ayında oldu bu gelişme. 

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İmzalanan protokol Gebze'deki y&uuml;zlerce nakliyat iş&ccedil;isini temsil eden T&Uuml;MTİS'in şirket tarafından tanınmasını hen&uuml;z sağlamıyor, ama sendikada &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenen 87 iş&ccedil;inin işten atılmasıyla ilgili bazı sorunları &ccedil;&ouml;z&uuml;yor ve işverenler nakliyat iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikal &ccedil;alışmalarına karşı &ccedil;ıkmamayı kabul ediyor. 
 
&Ccedil;ipa ve Şimşek'in T&Uuml;MTİS'i tanıyıp onunla s&ouml;zleşme g&ouml;r&uuml;şmesi yapıp yapmayacağına iş mahkemesi karar verecek. 
 
Protokola bağlanan anlaşmaya g&ouml;re, işten atılan iş&ccedil;ilerden bir kısmı işverenlerden tazminat alıyor, haksız işten &ccedil;ıkarmalar konusundaki davaları kazanan bir kısmı ise ek tazminat alıyor. Bazı iş&ccedil;iler işe iade edildi, diğerlerinin işe iadesi i&ccedil;in sendika &ccedil;aba harcıyor. 
 
T&Uuml;MTİS Genel Sekreteri G&uuml;rel Yılmaz, protestolar ve k&uuml;resel sendikal dayanışma sonucunda sendikalı iş&ccedil;i sayısının 200'&uuml;n &uuml;zerine &ccedil;ıktığını, sendikanın &ouml;rg&uuml;tleme &ccedil;alışmalarının bu sayede hız kazandığını a&ccedil;ıkladı. 
 
Yılmaz 20 Ekim toplantısında dayanışma amacıyla bir araya gelen sendikal &ouml;rg&uuml;tlerin desteklerini s&uuml;rd&uuml;rmelerini istedi. ITF OECD'nin &Ccedil;okuluslu İşletmelerle İlgili Kuralları &ccedil;er&ccedil;evesinde sendikal hakların sağlanmasına y&ouml;nelik &ccedil;alışmalarını s&uuml;rd&uuml;recek. 
ICEM, ITF ve IUF ile T&uuml;rkiye'deki sendikalar Unilever'in taşeron şirketleriyle ilgili uyuşmazlığı izlemeye, taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikal haklarının tanınması ve toplu s&ouml;zleşme bağıtlaması i&ccedil;in baskı uygulamaya devam edecek. &Ccedil;ipa ve Şimşek Unilever'in &uuml;r&uuml;nlerinin T&uuml;rkiye'de ve Ortadoğu'da dağıtımını sağlıyor.

Türkiye&#039;de Ortak Küresel Sendikal Eylem, Unilever’deki Taşeron İşçilerine Kazanımlar Sağladı

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Indian Oil Sector Officers&rsquo; Association (OSOA) President Amit Kumar announced the start of a three-day strike on Wednesday, 7 January. Strikers, representing 14 organisations in the OSOA, demand higher wages. The union numbers some 50,000 white-collar workers at hundreds of Indian enterprises. The OSOA is not affiliated to the ICEM. 
 
Three public sector companies, the Indian state oil company ONGC, and refineries were hit and it coincided with a strike by Indians truck drivers, whose own strike began Monday, 5 January. Petroleum Secretary R.S. Pandey conceded that production was being curtailed at Koyali refinery, Panipat refinery, Mathura refinery, and the Haldia refinery. 

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The government took a tough stand, invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) at several locations. The first day of the nationwide strike saw gas supplies to industrial consumers disrupted, and the government arrested two employees under ESMA, and suspending nearly 100 others across the country. OSOA leaders Narendra Goyal and Somesh Ranjan were both arrested in Delhi from their offices. 
 
Representatives of the All India Motor Transport Congress truckers union said their strike would continue despite the arrest of their president, Charan Singh Lohara, and secretary S Venugopal on Friday.

Indian Senior-Level Oil Workers Conduct Three-Day Strike

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Because Brazil&rsquo;s government&rsquo;s refused to cancel an onshore oil and gas licensing round last month, 30,000 workers of Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) took action by striking on 17 December. The strike was coordinated by ICEM-affiliated Federa&ccedil;&atilde;o &Uacute;nica dos Petroleiros (FUP), the National Oil Workers&rsquo; Federation. 
 
Although FUP did not disrupt essential services of state-run Petrobras, it did call on refinery workers in nine states to strike that day. FUP joined with the Rural Landless Workers&rsquo; Movement and several other social groups in mid-December to occupy the reception of the company&rsquo;s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the Ministry of Energy and Mines building. 
 
The protests were aimed at blocking the government&rsquo;s tenth round of bidding for oil and gas blocks, some 130 exploration tracts, covering 70,000 square kilometers in Sergipe-Alagoas, Amazon, Paran&aacute;, Potiguar, Parecis, Rec&ocirc;ncavo, and San Francisco. The union and its aligned social-group constituency, united under the banner &ldquo;Petroleum Must be Ours,&rdquo; seeks to keep oil and gas revenues inside the national economy, with the money used for social entitlements of all Brazilians. 

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&ldquo;We want Brazil&rsquo;s sovereignty to be preserved after the recent oil discoveries,&rdquo; stated a FUP union leader from Rio de Janeiro. &ldquo;The reserves are strategic and worth trillions of dollars and therefore should be used to improve the quality of life in Brazil and not be given over to foreign companies.&rdquo; 
 
FUP is carrying forth with legal efforts in the form of court injunctions in several jurisdictions to stop the bidding process, a process in which 48 companies were qualified by the government to bid. Those companies include Shell, Hess, Anadarko, and Devon, to name just a few. 
In other news affecting Petrobras, a 28-year-old offshore contract worker and father of one was killed on 4 January when a faulty high-pressure shut-off valve exploded on the company&rsquo;s FPSO P-34 platform. This occurred in the Jubarte field in deep-sea waters off the southwestern state of Espirito Santo. Two other workers were seriously injured. The workers were employed by UTC Engineering. FUP has been highly critical of the state company&rsquo;s safety practices, particularly in its policy of outsourcing strategic work.

Brazil’s Oil Workers Conduct 24-Hour Strike; Seek to Keep Resource Wealth at Home

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PENGASSAN, the ICEM-affiliated senior staff union in Nigeria&rsquo;s oil and gas sector, is on the verge of declaring a full scale strike action nationwide. This follows a seven-day warning strike by the oil and gas labour movement, late 2008, which ended without a satisfactory result. The on-going dispute has pitted PENGASSAN and the management of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), particularly PEF Executive Secretary Adefunke Kasali. Kasali, who has been attempting to implement new regional policies which victimise workers in certain areas. 
 
&ldquo;The only thing that could avert this strike is for Kasali to drop the unpopular policy,&rdquo; stated a PENGASSAN representative. 
 
PENGASSAN union members hold significant leverage in Nigeria; its members are supervisors at each of the petroleum depots, which transport fuel and diesel throughout the country. The depots are under the control of PEF. 
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A recent action by the other ICEM affiliate in Nigeria&rsquo;s oil and gas industry, NUPENG, included a joint action with PENGASSAN against the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Together the two unions issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government to rescind its decision to appoint a pre-shipment inspector, Cobalt, or risk industrial action. 
The decision to outsource this work to a foreign firm has angered the unions, especially since the pre-shipment inspection function was already being statutorily performed by Nigerian workers of the DPR. According to union statistics, the federal government will pay up to US$87,400 daily for this unneeded service. 
 
An Edo State PENGASSAN chairman insisted that the deployment of Cobalt &quot;to the country's 21 crude oil export terminals amounts to mortgaging the nation's economic heart beat. NUPENG and PENGASSAN, as responsible unions, cannot, therefore, fold their hands to see this essential sector of the nation's economy ravaged at this point in our nation's history.&quot;

Nigerian Oil Workers Move Closer to Strike

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Aqaba, Jordan, was the venue for the second seminar and workshop in 2008 that brought together Iraqi oil workers trade unions with the country&rsquo;s transport and port workers unions. The programme is part of the ICEM&ndash;International Transport Workers&rsquo; Federation (ITF) Oil and Gas Workers&rsquo; Trade Union Alliance. The seminar took place from 16-December 16-20 2008. A first meeting took place in Amman, Jordan, in March. 
 
The aims of the Alliance are to discuss, evaluate, and strengthen cooperation between the two Global Union Federations across the entire oil and gas sectors, and their logistical supply chain. Further aims are to develop strategic policy and enhanced organising abilities to jointly influence major companies in the industry, and to jointly organise mutual support and solidarity in achieving these objectives. Iraq is seen as a key country for such cooperation in the Middle East region. 
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The seminar was supported by the American Centre for International Labour Solidarity of the AFL-CIO, which participated as part of their extensive program of assistance to the Iraqi trade union movement. Facilitators were Jim Catterson of the ICEM, Bilal Malkawi of the ITF &ndash;Arab World, and Mary Ann Forbes, Solidarity Centre Country Program Director in Jordan. 
Also participating in the discussions were three Jordanian trade unions, the Port Workers&rsquo; Union, the Petrochemical Workers&rsquo; Union, and the Mineworkers&rsquo; Union. 
The seminar sessions included interactive presentations, which allowed participants to gain a better understanding of the roles of the ICEM, ITF, and Solidarity Centre, including policies towards Iraq and Iraqi trade unions, as well as sessions where participants split into work groups and then reported back to full plenary sessions of the seminar. 
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Participants took time out from discussing their own problems to discuss the year-long lockout of 260 oil refinery workers at a PetroCanada refinery in Montr&eacute;al, Quebec, and sent a statement of support to the workers condemning the company&rsquo;s behaviour, declaring their full solidarity with their fellow workers in Canada and calling on the company to settle the dispute in line with the CEP National Energy &amp; Chemical Bargaining Pattern Agreement. The lockout has subsequently been settled with an agreement meeting union demands. 
 
In the concluding sessions, participants further developed an action plan to build a network between oil &amp; petrochemicals unions and ports unions to improve communication and coordination nationally, regionally, and globally. They returned to Iraq with plans to develop ongoing contacts at a regional level that will meet as a national group again inside Iraq, probably in Iraqi Kurdistan in a few months time. Another meeting will be held towards the end of 2009, again in Jordan.

ICEM, ITF ‘Well to Wheel’ Seminar held in Aqaba, Jordan

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The multinational pharmaceutical company Menarini was put on notice 15 January by Italian unions to improve its social contract with workers, or face a first eight-hour strike on 30 January. In a statement by the tri-union Coordinating Committee of the Menarini Group, FILCEM-CGIL, FEMCA-CISL, and UILCEM-UIL jointly gave warning that pay and profit-sharing increases must be made to Italian workers, and greater participation in corporate strategies must be granted workers. 

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The unions are attempting to secure a four-year social compact with the privately-held, Florence-based company, which specialises in development and manufacture of cardiovascular, respiratory, and other drugs. The three unions are still in search of a satisfactory contract with a term stretching from 2008 to 2011. 
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The statement, issued after a 14 January meeting of the Coordinating Committee in Florence, demands a profit-sharing scheme using a different measure and one weighted more heavily on productivity. The three unions also seek wage quotas that meet the industry medium. 
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In addition, the unions demand working conditions, job classifications, and job re-organisation which will give workers more say in decision-making. Menarini, Europe&rsquo;s 19th largest pharmaceutical company, employs 3,850 of its global workforce of 12,500 in Italy. Besides several other Italian worksites, it operates a large bio-technical centre in Pomezia. 
 
In March 2007, the ICEM intervened on behalf of Turkish affiliate Lastik-İş when Menarini&rsquo;s subsidiary in Istanbul, İbrahim Ethan İla&ccedil;lari A.S., sacked union leaders who were seeking Lastik-İş representation. The company&rsquo;s refusal to abide by a court decree recognising the union caused a plant occupation by workers.

Italian Unions Put Demands on Gruppo Menarini, Plan 30 January Manifestation

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French trade unions will mobilise in Paris on 29 January, the result of failed social talks within the public electric and gas companies. The issues are job retention, re-training, and fair pay, and failure thus far to meet social accord is the fault of the federal government and Medef, the employers&rsquo; council in France, say the unions. 
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Eight unions, including federations CGT, CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC, and CFTC, decided in early January to set the mobilisation date, with resumption of social talks scheduled early in February. The three-page declaration is described as a compromise among workers&rsquo; representatives at several French gas and electric worksites over the pay issue. The declaration calls for urgent measures to prioritise job retention, remunerations, and economic revival, beginning first at the workplace. 
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The declaration also said now is the time to increase low wages, social minimums, and to enhance re-training opportunities, an area of general agreement between the three parties. But the unions forcefully denounce French federal government plans to fire 30,000 people from civil service jobs. 
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The French trade union federations&rsquo; call for mass participation on 29 January is urgent, and it is a legitimate &ldquo;workers&rsquo; awakening&rdquo; in the resistance of the neo-liberal agenda.

French Unions Unite in Gas, Electric Sectors for Jobs, Training, Fair Wages

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Leaders of Nigerian ICEM oil and gas affiliates NUPENG and PENGASSAN are mobilising workers as a 21-day ultimatum to the national government draws near demanding revocation to a contract with US-based Cobalt International covering pre-shipment services on oil exports. 
 
If the government does not, strikes will occur. 
 
NUPENG last week sent a petition to the Minister of Petroleum, Rilwan Lukman, clarifying that the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) is statutorily required to carry out the work of pre-shipment services, and that instead of hiring an outside firm at great cost, the government should allow Nigerians and DPR workers to do the work. 
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NUPENG said the contract with Cobalt &ldquo;should be abrogated with immediate effect,&rdquo; and demands the Nigerian state use its oil and gas revenues to acquire the necessary equipment &ldquo;to enhance its supervisory role in the oil and gas industry. 
 
&ldquo;The contract with Cobalt International Ltd. should not be allowed to stand because it serves as a conduit pipe for siphoning money by agents of multinationals from our national treasury,&rdquo; stated NUPENG. 
 
Elsewhere in Nigerian labour, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Adetokumbo Kayode, called for increased levels of dialogue between labour and the federal government during these times of economic difficulty. This positive move by the new minister for closer cooperation encouraged trade union leaders in Nigeria. &ldquo;Government, in order to move the country forward, will engage labour in a constructive dialogue on labour matters,&rdquo; said Kayode. 
 
This occurred while NUPENG was endorsing an electronic loading system, to be introduced across the energy-rich country by the Petroleum Equalization Fund. The system will monitor diversion of petroleum products, track information, and assure accurate billing and payment of products both at loading and receiving terminals. Some of the most dangerous work in Nigeria&rsquo;s oil patch is done by tank-truck drivers, who are members of NUPENG. 
 
Both NUPENG and PENGASSAN again addressed the security problem facing their union members in the Niger Delta region. The two unions issued a joint statement demanding further government intervention to ensure workers&rsquo; security at work.

Nigerian Oil Workers’ Move Closer to Strike Action on Outsourcing

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Thursday, 15 January, saw Brazil&rsquo;s five major labour unions come together, pledging to follow a united path through the current economic crisis. The meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil&rsquo;s centre for business and largest city, created the &ldquo;Union Action Pact,&rdquo; which outlines the labour movement&rsquo;s determination to protect jobs during the economic downturn. The pact will now be presented to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and to several state governors. 
 
The newly unified force of the five unions represents tens of millions of workers throughout Brazil, the largest and most important of the Latin American economies. The weight given by these numbers to demands laid out in the accord is considerable. One important clause decided on by the unions is that loans and benefits from the Brazilian government to companies be linked to commitments by them not to cut jobs. 

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Other demands laid out in the accord are to do with the national economy. Organised labour asks the central bank to lower the national interest rate from its currant 13.75%, and also puts demands on private banks to correct the current imbalance between the interest they charge borrowers and the rates they pay for deposits. 
 
The labour groups are asking Lula, himself a former union leader, to boost unemployment insurance and to increase the amount of money going to the national worker-training fund. They are planning a manifestation this Wednesday, 28 January, in S&atilde;o Paulo to coincide with a central bank meeting related to interest rates. 
 
A current example of the problems facing Brazilian workers is at the powerful S&atilde;o Paulo state industrial federation, or FIESP. While asking workers to accept a 25% pay cut, FIESP is unwilling to offer a no-layoff pledge.

Brazilian Labour Unions work together to fight challenging economic times

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Irak İşçi Konseyleri ve Sendikaları Federasyonu Sendika Seçimlerini Görüştü

Türkiye'de Ortak Küresel Sendikal Eylem, Unilever’deki Taşeron İşçilerine Kazanımlar Sağladı

Indian Senior-Level Oil Workers Conduct Three-Day Strike

Brazil’s Oil Workers Conduct 24-Hour Strike; Seek to Keep Resource Wealth at Home

Nigerian Oil Workers Move Closer to Strike

ICEM, ITF ‘Well to Wheel’ Seminar held in Aqaba, Jordan

Italian Unions Put Demands on Gruppo Menarini, Plan 30 January Manifestation

French Unions Unite in Gas, Electric Sectors for Jobs, Training, Fair Wages

Nigerian Oil Workers’ Move Closer to Strike Action on Outsourcing

Brazilian Labour Unions work together to fight challenging economic times

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