31.   Nine foreign investment banks were appointed to assist with the privatization process last week.

32.   On the domestic front, Zeman has pledged to fight crime and corruption in the privatization process, and slow down liberalization of prices.

33.   She was recently suspended from party duties due to suspected corruption in privatization process.

34.   Shams-Eddin dismissed charges that the privatization process was moving too slowly.

35.   Social Democrat leader Milos Zeman has demanded more state control of the privatization process, health care reform and construction of low-income housing.

36.   Shalenkov also criticized the privatization process on the whole for not anticipating such violations.

37.   Skuratov said the privatization process is riddled with corruption.

38.   The accountability at every level of the privatization process will be ensured.

39.   The appeal has no legal weight and cannot stop the privatization process, but amounts to an important political signal.

40.   The directive asked relevant government agencies to ease the privatization process and persuade local people it is in their interests to buy shares.