Armenian Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood www.exxun.com/Syria/c_pp.html
Armenians ... valued exports. Armenia's severe trade imbalance has been offset somewhat by international aid, remittances from Armenians working abroad, and foreign direct investment. Armenia joined the WTO in January 2003. The government ... www.exxun.com/Armenia/e_ec.html
Armenians ... to Naxcivan exclave; border with Turkey remains closed over Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; ethnic Armenian groups in Javakheti region of Georgia seek greater autonomy; Armenians continue to emigrate, primarily to Russia, seeking employment www.exxun.com/Armenia/i_ti.html
Armenians Azeri 90.6%, Dagestani 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.9% (1999 census) note: almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/c_pp.html
Armenians ... over 800,000 mostly ethnic Azerbaijanis were driven from the occupied lands and Armenia; about 230,000 ethnic Armenians were driven from their homes in Azerbaijan into Armenia; Azerbaijan seeks transit route through Armenia ... www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/i_ti.html
Armenians Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% www.exxun.com/Syria/c_pp.html
armies ... Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in ... www.exxun.com/Croatia/a_fg.html
armies ... 1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although final independence for Ukraine ... www.exxun.com/Ukraine/a_fg.html
armistice ... 1948, about 350 peacekeepers from the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) headquartered in Jerusalem monitor ceasefires, supervise armistice agreements, prevent isolated incidents from escalating, and assist other UN personnel in the region www.exxun.com/Israel/i_ti.html
armistice ... ROK to defend South Korea from DPRK attacks supported by China and the Soviet Union. An armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along a demilitarized zone at about the 38th ... www.exxun.com/Korea_South/a_fg.html
armistice ... 1941 German invasion of the USSR. Three years later, overrun by the Soviets, Romania signed an armistice. The post-war Soviet occupation led to the formation of a Communist "people's republic ... www.exxun.com/Romania/a_fg.html
armistice ... 1948, about 350 peacekeepers from the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), headquartered in Jerusalem, monitor ceasefires, supervise armistice agreements, prevent isolated incidents from escalating, and assist other UN personnel in the region www.exxun.com/WestBank/i_ti.html
armor ... women, in service since 1950, admitted to 7 service branches, including infantry, but excluded from artillery, armor, anti-air, and chaplaincy corps; some 4,000 women serve as commissioned and noncommissioned officers, approx ... www.exxun.com/Korea_South/h_ml.html
arms ... Western Europe; limited opium and growing cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and expanding in Europe; vulnerable to money laundering associated with regional trafficking in narcotics, arms, contraband, and illegal aliens www.exxun.com/Albania/i_ti.html
arms ... Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; Algeria remains concerned about armed bandits operating throughout the Sahel who sometimes destabilize southern ... www.exxun.com/Algeria/i_ti.html
arms ... three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red with the national coat of arms centered in the yellow band; the coat of arms features a quartered shield note: similar ... www.exxun.com/Andorra/d_gv.html
arms ... the Anguillan coat of arms centered in the outer half of the flag; the coat of arms depicts three orange dolphins in an interlocking circular design on a white background with blue ... www.exxun.com/Anguilla/d_gv.html
arms ... disputes); unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested dispute between Brazil and Uruguay ... www.exxun.com/Argentina/i_ti.html
arms ... with the head of a black trident centered on the gold band; the trident head represents independence and a break with the past (the colonial coat of arms contained a complete trident www.exxun.com/Barbados/d_gv.html
arms ... bottom edges; centered is a large white disk bearing the coat of arms; the coat of arms features a shield flanked by two workers in front of a mahogany tree with the ... www.exxun.com/Belize/d_gv.html
arms ... the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Bermudian coat of arms (white and green shield with a red lion holding a scrolled shield showing the sinking ... www.exxun.com/Bermuda/d_gv.html
arms three equal horizontal bands of red (top), yellow, and green with the coat of arms centered on the yellow band note: similar to the flag of Ghana, which has a large black ... www.exxun.com/Bolivia/d_gv.html
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