Primary placement auctions of Latvian Government debt securities


In order to place Latvian Government Treasury debt securities competitive       
multi-price auction will be run on NASDAQ OMX Riga on August 19, 2009.          
On August 20, 2009 NASDAQ OMX Riga will run tap issues; the fixed rate set by   
State Treasury will be published on NASDAQ OMX Riga webpage after the           
competitive auction.                                                            

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|    ISIN     |  Order book  | Orderbook | Maturity  | Competiti | Tap issues  |
|             |              | id.       |   date    |    ve     | Total value |
|             |              |           |           |  auction  |    to be    |
|             |              |           |           |   Total   |   placed    |
|             |              |           |           | value to  |    (LVL)    |
|             |              |           |           | be placed |             |
|             |              |           |           |   (LVL)   |             |
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| LV00005     | LVGA000009C2 | 68051     | 18.09.200 | 10        | Will not be |
| 13299       |              |           |     9     | 000 000   |    held     |
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| LV00005     | LVGA000009D2 | 68052     | 20.11.200 | 15        | Amount will |
| 23223       |              |           |     9     | 000 000   | be approved |
|             |              |           |           |           | during the  |
|             |              |           |           |           | tap issues  |
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| LV00005     | LVGA000010M  | 68053     | 19.02.201 | 5 000 000 | Amount will |
| 32448       |              |           |     0     |           | be approved |
|             |              |           |           |           | during the  |
|             |              |           |           |           | tap issues  |
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The settlement date for competitive auctions and tap issues is on August 21,    
2009.                                                                           
The nominal value of one security is LVL 100.                                   

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