TABLE 1
Attachment 1
Oil and Gas Producing Countries with investments by Indian companies; including rankings of political rights (PR) and civil liberties (CL) from 2006 Freedom House index. (1 represents most freedom, 7 represents least free)
| Country
 | PR
 | CL | 
 |  |  | 
| Algeria | 6 | 5
 | 
| Australia | 1 | 1
 | 
| Bangladesh | 4 | 4
 | 
| Burma | 7 | 7
 | 
| Cote d'Ivoire | 6 | 6
 | 
| Cuba | 7 | 7
 | 
| Egypt | 6 | 5
 | 
| Indonesia | 2 | 3
 | 
| Iran | 6 | 6
 | 
| Iraq | 6 | 5
 | 
| Kazakhstan | 6 | 5
 | 
| Kuwait | 4 | 5
 | 
| Libya | 7 | 7
 | 
| Mauritius | 1 | 2
 | 
| Nigeria | 4 | 4
 | 
| Qatar | 6 | 5
 | 
| Russia | 6 | 5
 | 
| Saudi Arabia | 7 | 6
 | 
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 3
 | 
| Sudan | 7 | 7
 | 
| Syria | 7 | 7
 | 
| UAE | 6 | 6
 | 
| Venezuela | 4 | 4
 | 
| Vietnam | 7 | 5
 | 
| Yemen | 5 | 5
 |