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Executive Council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 7 – 8 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC) was established in accordance with the provisions of article 22 (5) (a) of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC). The Convention was adopted at the second ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government of the African Union in Maputo, Mozambique, on 11th July 2003, and entered into force on 5th August 2006, thirty (30) days after the deposit of the fifteenth instrument of ratification. As at November 2018, the Convention had been signed by 49 states and ratified or acceded to by 40 States.

Informal patient payments are deeply rooted in Central and Eastern European countries. Despite the socio-political changes in the health care sectors after 1990s and the subsequent health care reforms, informal payments for health care services continue to serve patients` and physicians` interests. These payments also fill gaps in health care funding in this European region. Nevertheless, unofficial payments are not a desirable payment channel. They lack transparency and distort the efficiency and equity in health care provision. Still, the successful elimination of these payments will depend on the public attitude towards these payments. This study aims to compare public attitudes towards informal patient payments and payment experience in six Central and Eastern European: Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine. The data have been collected in 2010 in nation-wide representative surveys using an identical standardized question- naire administrated via face-to-face interviews. We have collected about 1000 questionnaires in each country. The results show that a major group of respondents in each country expresses a negative attitude towards both informal cash payments and in-kind gifts. 208, 187, and 174 respondents paid informally for out-patient service in Ukraine, Romania, and Hungary respectively. We also analyse the relation between public attitudes and respondents` past experience with informal payments, e.g. whether they have paid informally payment for out-patient service used last year. In Bulgaria and Poland, negative attitude is mostly observed among those who have not paid informally. The existence of positive and indifferent attitudes towards informal pay- ments as reported in our study, indicates a challenge for policy makers in Central and Eastern European countries. The acceptance of government initiatives aimed at the elimination of informal payments will largely depend on the governments` ability to create a social resistance towards these payments.

Executive council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 07 - 08 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The members of the PRC Sub-Committee on Headquarters and Host Agreements, met on 22 October 2018 at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. to discuss issues relating to the implementation of the Agreement between the African Union and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, on the Headquarters of the AU , as well as issues arising from the implementation of Host Country Agreements between the AU and States hosting AU institutions, organs, agencies and offices.

Тематски Зборник Свакодневна култура у постсоцијалистичком периоду настао је као резултат научне сарадње Етнографског института САНУи Етнографског института и музеја БАН. Велике политичке и друштвене промене током деведесетих година 20.века озбиљно су се одразиле на свакодневну културу балканских земаља. Управо у периоду кризе, две суседне етнолошке установе, бугарска и српска, које више деценија током социјалисатичког периода нису сарађивале, отпочеле су заједнички рад на истраживању свакодневне културе. Зборник показује у ком правацу су се одвијали културни процеси у Србији и Бугарској, које су сличности и разлике међу њима, али и шта се дешава у постсоцијалистичком периоду у појединим сегментима свакодневне култура Словака, Руса и Македонаца. ; The Collection of Papers entitled ―Everyday Culture in post-socialist period is a result of collaboration between the Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Institute of Ethnography and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The enormous political and social changes during the 1990's influenced also everyday culture of the Balkans states. After decades of hinder, and precisely in the period of crisis, two neighboring ethnological institutions, the Bulgarian and Serbian, started to cooperate together in the study of everyday culture.The Collection of Papers demonstrates the directions of the cultural processes in Serbia and Bulgaria, accentuating the differences and similarities among the two states, and also explains the deeds within certain segments of everyday cultures of Slovaks, Russians and Macedonians. ; Зборник радова Етнографског института САНУ 22 / Collection of Papers of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 22

This study deals with the basic principles that underlie the Turkish security policy, since the end of the 2nd World War. The author analyses some of the security problems dealt with by the Turkish government in the seventies and eighties, with a focus on the internal economic problems. In reviewing its security policy, Turkey faces difficult options: the independent line versus NATO, the Non-Aggression Treaty with the Soviet Union, either a non-alignment stands or a leaning towards the Middle Eastern or Islamic trends. The author concludes that Turkey will not take any of these options in the near future, but, more probably, will only put some gradual modifications to its original path. (DÜI-Sdt)

The author deals with the ecological, economic, and social importance of fisheries development and the problems preventing such development. These problems include: shortage of water, effects of dams and reservoirs, illegal fishing, water pollution etc. He suggests solutions for these problems. (DÜI-Sdt)

The first part of this study presents the Arab Cooperation Council, and its aims; the author makes a comparative analysis of the ACC and the Gulf Cooperation Council. The second part deals with the prospects for an economic integration to be initiated between the four members of the new council. (DÜI-Sdt)

The author deals with the general rules that command arbitration as well as its implementation, concerning the Taba case. He defines the real content of an international arbitration with its characteristics and varieties and describes the agreements that come out of an international arbitration and their specific conditions as well as the implementation system followed in order to implement a decision delivered by an international arbitration court. (DÜI-Sdt)

This study deals with the effect of the Iran-Iraq war on the industry of crude oil extraction in both countries. The first part sheds light on the situation of the oil extraction before the outbreak of the war, the second shows the development of the production of crude oil throughout the war and in the third part the author tries to forecast the future of oil extraction in both countries. (DÜI-Sdt)

This study attempts to outline American neo-conservative thought and its conception of the foreign policy of the USA. First, the author deals with the conservative trend of thought in the USA and with the various conservative groups, stressing their points of agreement and of disagreement, concerning mainly the Arab-Israeli conflict. The conclusion is a projection in the near future of the neo-conservatives. (DOI-Sdt)

Two reasons are behind the seriousness of Unesco's crisis: first, for the first time one of the superpowers withdrew from the Organization and its remaining outside will put question marks on its universal character. Second, the Unesco's budget will be amputated of its third. The author analyses the role of Ahmad Muhtar Ambu and the attitude of the Arab states towards the Unesco's crisis. (DÜI-Sdt)

Despite the short time of the GCC's experiment, an assessment of it, according to its motives, creation and theories that command the cooperation, can be made and be compared with the results that have been gained since the birth of the GCC. The author adopts the point of view according to which one must strive in favour of any effective form of cooperation, on the condition that such an effort should not lead to the strenghthening of the separatist trend in these countries that would isolate them from the rest of the Arab world. (DÜI-Sdt)