Verdeans
... 20th century caused significant hardship and prompted heavy emigration. As a result, Cape Verde's expatriate population is greater than its domestic one. Most Cape Verdeans have both African and Portuguese antecedents
www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/a_fg.html
Verdi
... Partei der Schweiz or Gruene, Parti Ecologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Ruth GENNER]; Christian Democratic People's Party (Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei ...
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/d_gv.html
verdicts
Supreme Court (serves as appeals court for people's and provincial courts but rarely overturns verdicts of lower courts; judges are nominated by the General Council of Courts and approved by the ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/d_gv.html
Verfassungsgerichtshof
Supreme Judicial Court or Oberster Gerichtshof; Administrative Court or Verwaltungsgerichtshof; Constitutional Court or Verfassungsgerichtshof
www.exxun.com/Austria/d_gv.html
VERHOEVEN
... or MKB [Loek HERMANS]; Netherlands Trade Union Federation or FNV [Agnes JONGERIUS]; Social Economic Council or SER [ Alexander RINNOOY Kan]; Trade Union Federation of Middle and High Personnel or MHP [Ad VERHOEVEN
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
verification
... Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections. Continued Iraqi noncompliance with UNSC resolutions over a period of 12 years led to ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/a_fg.html
verification
... escape drought and recriminations from traditional courts investigating the 1994 massacres; the 2005 DROC and Rwanda border verification mechanism to stem rebel actions on both sides of the border remains in place
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/i_ti.html
Verizon
... telecommunications operators are part of an international consortium which, in December 2006, signed an agreement with Verizon Business to build the first next-generation fiber optic submarine cable system directly linking the ...
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Verkhovna
unicameral Supreme Council or Verkhovna Rada (450 seats; members allocated on a proportional basis to those parties that gain 3% or more of the national electoral vote; to serve five-year terms ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/d_gv.html
Vermont
slightly smaller than New Hampshire and Vermont combined
www.exxun.com/Estonia/b_mp.html
Vermont
slightly larger than Vermont
www.exxun.com/Macedonia/b_mp.html
Vermont
... New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/d_gv.html
vernacular
Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/c_pp.html
vernacular
... English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/c_pp.html
vernaculars
French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
www.exxun.com/Benin/c_pp.html
vernaculars
English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars
www.exxun.com/Gambia/c_pp.html
vernaculars
English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages
www.exxun.com/Zambia/c_pp.html
VERNAUDON
... for the Liberation of Polynesia (Tavini Huiraatira) [Oscar TEMARU]; New Fatherland Party (Ai'a Api) [Emile VERNAUDON]; Our Home alliance; People's Rally for the Republic of Polynesia or RPR (Tahoeraa Huiraatira ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/d_gv.html
Verona
chief of state: President Pedro Verona PIRES (since 22 March 2001) head of government: Prime Minister Jose Maria Pereira NEVES (since 1 February 2001) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president ...
www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/d_gv.html
verses
... Great Arab Revolt of 1916, and bearing a small white seven-pointed star symbolizing the seven verses of the opening Sura (Al-Fatiha) of the Holy Koran; the seven points on the ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/d_gv.html
VERSHBOW
chief of mission: Ambassador Alexander VERSHBOW embassy: 32 Sejong-no, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-710 mailing address: US Embassy Seoul, APO AP 96205-5550 telephone: [82] (2) 397-4114 FAX: [82] (2) 738-8845
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/d_gv.html
version
... president, but both November and December 2006 versions were annulled in September 2007, and a new version was approved by referendum on 21 October 2007; the BAKIYEV-initiated referendum was criticized by ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/d_gv.html
versions
... the presidential powers lost in the November 2006 constitutional change. By late-September 2007, both previous versions of the constitution were declared illegal, and the country reverted to the AKAYEV-era 2003 ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/a_fg.html
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