depletion
desertification; depletion of underground water resources; the lack of perennial rivers or permanent water bodies has prompted the development of extensive seawater desalination facilities; coastal pollution from oil spills
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/b_mp.html
depletion
... and size of small and medium enterprises and attract foreign direct investment is acute. Overgrazing, soil depletion, drought, and sometimes floods persist as problems for the future. More than one-fourth of ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
depletion
land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the depletion of the water table; droughts
www.exxun.com/Thailand/b_mp.html
depletion
... era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain led to overuse of agrochemicals and the depletion of water supplies, which have left the land poisoned and the Aral Sea and certain ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/a_fg.html
depletion
... subject to overpopulation, industrial disasters, pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances), loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), loss of wildlife, soil degradation, soil depletion, erosion; global warming becoming a greater concern
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
deploy
... Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000 refugees while allowing Western and Arab troops to deploy on its soil for the liberation of Kuwait the following year. The continuing presence of ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/a_fg.html
deployable
... has initiated project work on an integrated missile defense system; Air Force priorities include attaining a modern deployable, survivable, and sustainable force structure, and establishing a sustainable command and control system (2008
www.exxun.com/Turkey/h_ml.html
deployed
... the Command consists of a single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre that is deployed throughout the island; it increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline to prevent smuggling ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/h_ml.html
deployed
... the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) maintained over 18,000 uniformed peacekeepers in the region, first deployed in 1999; despite significant repatriation efforts by governments and international organizations, in 2006, Angolans, Rwandans ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/i_ti.html
deployed
the five-nation Eurocorps - created in 1992 by France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg - has deployed troops and police on peacekeeping missions to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Democratic Republic of the ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/h_ml.html
deployed
a CIS peacekeeping force of Russian troops is deployed in the Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in South Ossetia
www.exxun.com/Georgia/h_ml.html
deployed
17-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; soldiers under 18 are not deployed into combat or with peacekeeping missions; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/h_ml.html
deployed
... months in land or air defense forces or police; a small portion of Mongolian land forces (2.5 percent) is comprised of contract soldiers; women cannot be deployed overseas for military operations (2006
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/h_ml.html
deployed
17 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed until the age of 18; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/h_ml.html
deployed
16 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed for combat until age of 18; the Pakistani Air Force and Pakistani Navy have inducted their first female pilots and ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/h_ml.html
deployed
... At the request of the Government of Timor-Leste, an Australian-led International Stabilization Force (ISF) deployed to Timor-Leste in late May. In August, the UN Security Council established the UN ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
deployment
... a head in December 1963, when violence broke out in the capital of Nicosia. Despite the deployment of UN peacekeepers in 1964, sporadic intercommunal violence continued forcing most Turkish Cypriots into enclaves ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/a_fg.html
deployment
... Lebanon's civil war, the Arab League legitimized in the Ta'if Accord Syria's troop deployment, numbering about 16,000 based mainly east of Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley. Israel's ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/a_fg.html
deployment
... civil war, now complete domestic: two wireless networks provide good service; political instability hampers privatization and deployment of new technologies; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership approaching 50 per 100 persons ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/f_cm.html
deport
... s rating was downgraded to Tier 3 in the 2007 report for continuing to detain and deport victims rather than providing them protection; the government also failed to increase prosecutions for trafficking ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/i_ti.html
deportation
refugees (country of origin): 11,526 (Colombia); note - UNHCR estimates as many as 250,000 Columbians are seeking asylum in Ecuador, many of whom do not register as refugees for fear of deportation (2007)
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/i_ti.html
