Asian
... Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/i_ti.html
Asian
... in moving forward from an extremely low level of development and significantly reducing poverty. The 1997 Asian financial crisis highlighted the problems in the Vietnamese economy and temporarily allowed opponents of reform ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/e_ec.html
Asian
southeast Asian states have enhanced border surveillance to check the spread of avian flu; Cambodia and Laos protest Vietnamese squatters and armed encroachments along border; an estimated 300,000 Vietnamese refugees reside in ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/i_ti.html
Asian
black 76.2%, white 13.1%, Asian 1.1%, other 6.1%, mixed 3.5% (2000 census)
www.exxun.com/VirginIslands/c_pp.html
Asian
African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1%
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/c_pp.html
Asian
transit point for cannabis and South Asian heroin, mandrax, and methamphetamines en route to South Africa
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/i_ti.html
Asians
Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000
www.exxun.com/Burundi/c_pp.html
Asians
Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/c_pp.html
Asians
Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982) note: less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982)
www.exxun.com/UnitedArabEmirates/c_pp.html
Asians
predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans
www.exxun.com/Yemen/c_pp.html
ASIC
... Salvadoran Workers Central or CTS; Workers Union of Electrical Corporation or STCEL; business organizations - National Association of Small Enterprise or ANEP; Salvadoran Assembly Industry Association or ASIC; Salvadoran Industrial Association or ASI
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/d_gv.html
aside
... elections held in late 2000 and declared himself the winner. Popular protest forced him to step aside and brought Laurent GBAGBO into power. Ivorian dissidents and disaffected members of the military launched ...
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/a_fg.html
aside
... to serve a four-year term as a nonvoting representative in the US House of Representatives; aside from not voting on the House floor, he enjoys all the rights of a member ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/d_gv.html
aside
... with the support of the military following international condemnation for the unconstitutional move he then stepped aside pending elections, and Abass BONFOH served as interim president; Faure GNASSINGBE later won popular elections ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/d_gv.html
Asif
... PPP-S [Aftab Ahmed Khan SHERPAO]; Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians or PPPP [Bilawal Bhutto ZARDARI, chairman; Asif Ali ZARDARI, co-chairman]; Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaaf or PTI [Imran KHAN]; Tehrik-i Islami ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/d_gv.html
Asimah
6 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Ahmadi, Al 'Asimah, Al Farwaniyah, Al Jahra', Hawalli, Mubarak Al Kabir
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/d_gv.html
Asir
13 provinces (mintaqat, singular - mintaqah); Al Bahah, Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah, Al Jawf, Al Madinah, Al Qasim, Ar Riyad, Ash Sharqiyah (Eastern Province), 'Asir, Ha'il, Jizan, Makkah, Najran, Tabuk
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/d_gv.html
Asiya
Adilet Legal Clinic [Cholpon JAKUPOVA]; Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society [Dinara OSHURAKHUNOVA]; Interbilim [Asiya SASYKBAYEVA]
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/d_gv.html
ask
... terms; note - this is primarily an advisory body with limited legislative powers; it may propose laws, ask to review any National Assembly decision, and call national referenda) elections: National Assembly - last held ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
Askar
... the USSR dissolved. Nationwide demonstrations in the spring of 2005 resulted in the ouster of President Askar AKAYEV, who had run the country since 1990. Subsequent presidential elections in July 2005 were ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/a_fg.html
Askar
adopted 5 May 1993; note - amendment proposed by President Askar AKAYEV and passed in a national referendum on 2 February 2003 significantly expanded the powers of the president at the expense of ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/d_gv.html
asked
mixture of customary law, civil law system, and common law traditions; Supreme Court renders advisory opinions to legislature when asked; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
www.exxun.com/Norway/d_gv.html
Askja
... Independent for over 300 years, Iceland was subsequently ruled by Norway and Denmark. Fallout from the Askja volcano of 1875 devastated the Icelandic economy and caused widespread famine. Over the next quarter ...
www.exxun.com/Iceland/a_fg.html
Aslaug
Center Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party [Dagfinn HOYBRATEN]; Conservative Party [Erna SOLBERG]; Labor Party [Jens STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party [Lars SPONHEIM]; Progress Party [Siv JENSEN]; Socialist Left Party [Kristin HALVORSEN]
www.exxun.com/Norway/d_gv.html
