able
The island nation has been able to attract foreign business and investment, especially in its offshore banking and tourism industries, with a surge in foreign direct investment in 2006, attributed to the ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/e_ec.html
able
... and Sanaag. Beginning in 1993, a two-year UN humanitarian effort (primarily in the south) was able to alleviate famine conditions, but when the UN withdrew in 1995, having suffered significant casualties ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/a_fg.html
able
... RAMOS-HORTA (since 20 May 2007); note - the president plays a largely symbolic role but is able to veto legislation, dissolve parliament, and call national elections head of government: Prime Minister Kay ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/d_gv.html
able
... was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine was able to bring about a short-lived period of independence (1917-20), but was reconquered and forced ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/a_fg.html
able
... around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; The Bahamas and US have not been able to agree on a maritime boundary; US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/i_ti.html
Abogo
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS [Placido MICO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE (ruling party) [Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO]; Electoral Coalition or EC; Party for Progress of Equatorial ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/d_gv.html
abolish
... are preapproved by the president note: in autumn 2008, the constitution of Turkmenistan was revised to abolish the 2,507-member legislative body known as the People's Council and to expand the ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/d_gv.html
abolished
... president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; note - a November 2008 constitutional amendment abolished presidential term limits; election last held 9 April 2009 (next to be held in April ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/d_gv.html
abolished
... who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/a_fg.html
abolished
... km water: 500 sq km note: includes the exclave of Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region; the region's autonomy was abolished by Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/b_mp.html
abolished
... in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
abolished
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished January 2006; 4-month service obligation (2009)
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/h_ml.html
abolished
... country, lasted seven years. The 1974 democratic elections and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy. In 1981, Greece joined the EC (now the EU); it became the 12th ...
www.exxun.com/Greece/a_fg.html
