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... Dutch in 1616 and Wallis by the British in 1767, but it was the French who declared a protectorate over the islands in 1842. In 1959, the inhabitants of the islands voted ...
www.exxun.com/WallisandFutuna/a_fg.html
declared
... 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded more complete voting ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/a_fg.html
declaring
Serbia with several other states protest the US and other states' recognition of Kosovo's declaring itself as a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/i_ti.html
declaring
Serbia with several other states protest the U.S. and other states' recognition of Kosovo's declaring itself as a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/i_ti.html
decline
... with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s. By 1994, however, the Armenian Government launched an ambitious IMF-sponsored ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/e_ec.html
decline
... species include the manatee, seals, sea lions, turtles, and whales; drift net fishing is hastening the decline of fish stocks and contributing to international disputes; municipal sludge pollution off eastern US, southern ...
www.exxun.com/AtlanticOcean/b_mp.html
decline
general assessment: highly developed and efficient domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership elipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net ...
www.exxun.com/Austria/f_cm.html
decline
... had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but tourist arrivals have been on the decline since 2006. Financial services constitute the second-most important sector of the Bahamian economy and ...
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/e_ec.html
decline
Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end of the first millennium A.D. The British and Spanish disputed the region in the 17th and 18th ...
www.exxun.com/Belize/a_fg.html
decline
... that have bolstered international reserves to historically high levels, reduced public debt, and allowed a significant decline in real interest rates. A floating exchange rate, an inflation-targeting regime, and a tight ...
www.exxun.com/Brazil/e_ec.html
decline
... over coastal areas of northwest Borneo and the southern Philippines. Brunei subsequently entered a period of decline brought on by internal strife over royal succession, colonial expansion of European powers, and piracy ...
www.exxun.com/Brunei/a_fg.html
decline
... 13% from 2004 and cultivation in 2005 was 40,000 hectares, a 10% increase from 2004; the decline in opium production in the United Wa State Army's areas of greatest control was ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/i_ti.html
decline
... Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the empire, ushering in a long period of decline. The king placed the country under French protection in 1863 and it became part of ...
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
decline
... the Congo - a nation endowed with vast potential wealth - is slowly recovering from two decades of decline. Conflict, which began in August 1998, dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, increased external ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
decline
The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
decline
... index, and political stability, the Danish living standards are among the highest in the world. A major long-term issue will be the sharp decline in the ratio of workers to retirees
www.exxun.com/Denmark/e_ec.html
decline
... use land as collateral for loans. Drought struck again late in 2002, leading to a 3.3% decline in GDP in 2003. Normal weather patterns helped agricultural and GDP growth recover during 2004-07
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/e_ec.html
decline
... while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/a_fg.html
decline
... of the Holy See include religious freedom, international development, the environment, the Middle East, China, the decline of religion in Europe, terrorism, interreligious dialogue and reconciliation, and the application of church doctrine ...
www.exxun.com/HolySee_VaticanCity/a_fg.html
decline
... heavy industry products resulted in a short-term contraction of the economy, with the steepest annual decline occurring in 1994. In 1995-97, the pace of the government program of economic reform and ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/e_ec.html
decline
... the main Kumtor gold mine sparked a 0.5% decline in GDP in 2002 and a 0.6% decline in 2005. GDP grew more than 6% in 2007, partly due to higher gold prices ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/e_ec.html
decline
... and Thailand, as well as over all of what is now Laos. After centuries of gradual decline, Laos came under the domination of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/a_fg.html
