blockade
... hurt by their inability to make substantial progress toward a peaceful resolution. Turkey imposed an economic blockade on Armenia and closed the common border because of the Armenian separatists' control of Nagorno ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/a_fg.html
blockade
... African Union (AU) initially attempted to resolve the political crisis by applying sanctions and a naval blockade on Anjouan, but in March 2008, AU and Comoran soldiers seized the island. The move ...
www.exxun.com/Comoros/a_fg.html
blocking
... 2008 (next to be held in 2011) election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - independents 18; note - President Marcus STEPHEN called a snap election to break a parliamentary stalemate blocking legislative action
www.exxun.com/Nauru/d_gv.html
blocking
... reforms urged by the IMF, such as to modernize the banking system, to curb inflation by blocking excessive wage demands, and to resolve regional disputes over the distribution of earnings from the ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
blocks
lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/e_ec.html
blocks
... still divided, with the EU's body of legislation and standards (acquis communitaire) suspended in the north; Turkey protests Cypriot Government creating hydrocarbon blocks and maritime boundary with Lebanon in March 2007
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/i_ti.html
blocks
soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes
www.exxun.com/Dominica/e_ec.html
blocks
... drilling was given a boost in 2004 when the State Oil Company (Staatsolie) signed exploration agreements with Repsol, Maersk, and Occidental. Bidding on these new offshore blocks was completed in July 2006
www.exxun.com/Suriname/e_ec.html
blocs
... Wai-hing]; League of Social Democrats [Raymond WONG]; Liberal Party [James TIEN Pei-chun] note: political blocs include: pro-democracy - ADPL, Democratic Party, Frontier Party, League of Social Democrats; pro-Beijing - DAB ...
www.exxun.com/HongKong/d_gv.html
blocs
... four-year terms; 300 in single-seat constituencies; 180 members by proportional representation in 11 regional blocs) elections: House of Councillors - last held 29 July 2007 (next to be held in July ...
www.exxun.com/Japan/d_gv.html
blocs
unicameral Parliament or Parlamentul (101 seats; parties and electoral blocs elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) elections: last held 6 March 2005 (next to be held in 2009) election ...
www.exxun.com/Moldova/d_gv.html
Bloemfontein
... Pretoria (administrative capital) geographic coordinates: 25 42 S, 28 13 E time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) note: Cape Town (legislative capital); Bloemfontein (judicial capital
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/d_gv.html
Bloemfontein
... radio relay links, fiber-optic cable, radiotelephone communication stations, and wireless local loops; key centers are Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, and Pretoria international: country code - 27; the SAT-3 ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/f_cm.html
Bloke
... and 11 urban municipalities* (mestne obcine , singular - mestna obcina ) Ajdovscina, Beltinci, Benedikt, Bistrica ob Sotli, Bled, Bloke, Bohinj, Borovnica, Bovec, Braslovce, Brda, Brezice, Brezovica, Cankova, Celje*, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Cerknica, Cerkno, Cerkvenjak ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
blong
conventional long form: Republic of Vanuatu conventional short form: Vanuatu local long form: Ripablik blong Vanuatu local short form: Vanuatu former: New Hebrides
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/d_gv.html
blood
... to progress and honor; blue symbolizes the sky, white is for the snow-covered Andes, and red represents the blood spilled to achieve independence note: design was influenced by the US flag
www.exxun.com/Chile/d_gv.html
blood
Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians (persons of European and Polynesian blood) 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% (2001 census)
www.exxun.com/Samoa/c_pp.html
blood
... red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle, which symbolizes peace; green symbolizes agriculture, yellow - mineral wealth, red - blood shed to achieve independence, and black stands for the native people
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/d_gv.html
bloodless
... and Moheli declared independence from Comoros. In 1999, military chief Col. AZALI seized power in a bloodless coup, and helped negotiate the 2000 Fomboni Accords power-sharing agreement in which the federal ...
www.exxun.com/Comoros/a_fg.html
bloodless
... September 2003, after only three years in office, YALA was ousted by the military in a bloodless coup, and businessman Henrique ROSA was sworn in as interim president. In 2005, former President ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/a_fg.html
bloodless
... two decades. A series of presidential elections that he held were widely seen as flawed. A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council that oversaw ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritania/a_fg.html
bloodless
... since 1972. His son, the current Amir HAMAD bin Khalifa al-Thani, overthrew him in a bloodless coup in 1995. In 2001, Qatar resolved its longstanding border disputes with both Bahrain and ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/a_fg.html
