Primary placement auctions of Latvian Government debt securities


In order to place Latvian Government Treasury debt securities competitive       
multi-price auctions will be run on NASDAQ OMX Riga on December 16, 2009.       
Non-competitive fixed rate auctions will be run on NASDAQ OMX Riga on December  
17, 2009; the fixed rate set by State Treasury will be published on NASDAQ OMX  
Riga webpage after the competitive auctions.                                    

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|    ISIN     |  Order book  | Orderbook | Maturity  | Competiti | Non-competi |
|             |              | id.       |   date    |    ve     |    tive     |
|             |              |           |           |  auction  |   auction   |
|             |              |           |           |   Total   | Total value |
|             |              |           |           | value to  |    to be    |
|             |              |           |           | be placed |   placed    |
|             |              |           |           |   (LVL)   |    (LVL)    |
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|   LV00005   | LVGA000010W1 | 71817     | 19.03.201 | 12 000    | 3 000 000   |
|    23371    |              |           |    0.     | 000       |             |
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|   LV00005   | LVGA000010X1 | 71818     | 18.06.201 | 12 000    | 3 000 000   |
|    32596    |              |           |    0.     | 000       |             |
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|   LV00005   | LVGA000010Y1 | 71819     | 17.12.201 | 12 000    | 3 000 000   |
|    41274    |              |           |    0.     | 000       |             |
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The settlement date for both (competitive and non-competitive) auctions is on   
December 18, 2009.                                                              
The nominal value of one security is LVL 100.                                   

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