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18 years of age for voluntary military service; standard obligation is 2 years of active duty and 5 years of reserve service (2007)
www.exxun.com/Malawi/h_ml.html
active
active volcanoes on Pagan and Agrihan; typhoons (especially August to November)
www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/b_mp.html
active
active volcanism; situated along the Pacific "Ring of Fire"; the country is subject to frequent and sometimes severe earthquakes; mud slides; tsunamis
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/b_mp.html
active
astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; tsunamis
www.exxun.com/Philippines/b_mp.html
active
... Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. With its transformation to a democratic, market-oriented country largely completed, Poland is an increasingly active member of Euro-Atlantic organizations
www.exxun.com/Poland/a_fg.html
active
... of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
active
active volcanism on Tristan da Cunha, last eruption in 1961
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/b_mp.html
active
occasional typhoons; active volcanism
www.exxun.com/Samoa/b_mp.html
active
typhoons, but rarely destructive; geologically active region with frequent earthquakes, tremors, and volcanic activity; tsunamis
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/b_mp.html
active
20.49 million economically active (2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
active
... rising steeply from the sea, are rugged and mountainous; South Georgia is largely barren and has steep, glacier-covered mountains; the South Sandwich Islands are of volcanic origin with some active volcanoes
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/b_mp.html
active
... Mining has declined in importance in recent years with only coal and quarry stone mines remaining active. Surrounded by South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique, Swaziland is heavily dependent ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
active
... ties with its neighbors. However, the country did not officially become a UN member until 2002. Switzerland remains active in many UN and international organizations but retains a strong commitment to neutrality
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/a_fg.html
active
Congress of the People [Winston DOOKERAN]; Democratic Action Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in Tobago); Democratic National Alliance or DNA [Gerald YETMING] (coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND); Movement for National ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/d_gv.html
active
18 years of age; universal except for active government security forces (including the police and the military), people with mental disabilities, people who have served more than three months in prison (criminal ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/d_gv.html
active
a Y-shaped chain of four main islands and 80 smaller islands; several of the islands have active volcanoes
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/b_mp.html
active
... significant narcotics-related money-laundering activity, especially along the border with Colombia and on Margarita Island; active eradication program primarily targeting opium; increasing signs of drug-related activities by Colombian insurgents on ...
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/i_ti.html
active
18 years of age (male) for compulsory military service; females may volunteer for active duty military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (3 to 4 years in the navy); 18-45 years of ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/h_ml.html
active
strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes
www.exxun.com/Yemen/b_mp.html
active
... Party [Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr. Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]; note - there are at least seven more active political parties
www.exxun.com/Yemen/d_gv.html
actively
... and is competing on an international scale with Malaysia as a worldwide banking center. Bahrain is actively pursuing the diversification and privatization of its economy to reduce the country's dependence on ...
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/e_ec.html
actively
none (extensive self-rule as part of the Kingdom of Denmark; foreign affairs is the responsibility of Denmark, but Greenland actively participates in international agreements relating to Greenland)
www.exxun.com/Greenland/d_gv.html
actively
... oil production comes from the Indian Ocean. Beach sands rich in heavy minerals and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/e_ec.html
actively
... is attempting to "Omanize" the labor force by replacing foreign expatriate workers with local workers. Oman actively seeks private foreign investors, especially in the industrial, information technology, tourism, and higher education fields ...
www.exxun.com/Oman/e_ec.html
