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... about 500,000 people, suffered dramatic declines in foreign visitor levels. In November 2007, the European Union announced new sanctions banning investment and trade in Burmese gems, timber and precious stones, while the ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
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... stamps and coins. The islands are now self-financing except for defense. The British Geological Survey announced a 200-mile oil exploration zone around the islands in 1993, and early seismic surveys ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/e_ec.html
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... with substantial job losses in the service sector. In July 2007 the Reserve Bank of Fiji announced the economy was expected to contract by 3.1% in 2007. Fiji's current account deficit ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
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... a secondary occupation for the rural population. High unemployment remains a persistent problem. In 2007 Russia announced plans to impose high tariffs on raw timber exported to Finland. The Finnish pulp and ...
www.exxun.com/Finland/e_ec.html
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... seizure of the private peanut firm Alimenta eliminated the largest purchaser of Gambian groundnuts. Despite an announced program to begin privatizing key parastatals, no plans have been made public that would indicate ...
www.exxun.com/Gambia/e_ec.html
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... The country fell under Communist rule following World War II. In 1956, a revolt and an announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with a massive military intervention by Moscow. Under ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/a_fg.html
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17 August 1945 (declared) note: recognized by the Netherlands on 27 December 1949; in August 2005, the Netherlands announced it recognized de facto Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/d_gv.html
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... January 2003, it declared its withdrawal from the international Non-Proliferation Treaty. In mid-2003 Pyongyang announced it had completed the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel rods (to extract weapons-grade plutonium ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/a_fg.html
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... lifted in September 2003 after Libya accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing. In December 2003, Libya announced that it had agreed to reveal and end its programs to develop weapons of mass ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
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... This effort picked up steam after UN sanctions were lifted in September 2003 and as Libya announced in December 2003 that it would abandon programs to build weapons of mass destruction. Almost ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/e_ec.html
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0 km note: Libya has announced plans to build seven lines totaling 2,757 km of 1.435-m gauge track (2006)
www.exxun.com/Libya/g_tr.html
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... RAVALOMANANA, nearly causing secession of half of the country. In April 2002, the High Constitutional Court announced RAVALOMANANA the winner. RAVALOMANANA is now in his second term following a landslide victory in ...
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/a_fg.html
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... 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, saw the Sandinistas defeated, but voting in 2006 announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
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... the distribution of earnings from the oil industry. In 2003, the government began deregulating fuel prices, announced the privatization of the country's four oil refineries, and instituted the National Economic Empowerment ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
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China announced plans in 1997 to open the islands for tourism.
www.exxun.com/ParacelIslands/e_ec.html
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... the Camisea natural gas megaproject and for other promising energy projects. Upon taking office, President GARCIA announced Sierra Exportadora, a program aimed at promoting economic growth in Peru's southern and central ...
www.exxun.com/Peru/e_ec.html
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... the budget deficit with the aim of eventually adopting the euro. The new government has also announced its intention to enact business-friendly reforms, reduce public sector spending growth, lower taxes, and ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
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... to the 1996 border agreements with Estonia (1996) and Latvia (1997), when the two Baltic states announced issuance of unilateral declarations referencing Soviet occupation and ensuing territorial losses; Russia demands better treatment ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
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... a chairman appointed by the monarch for four-year terms); note - though the Council of Ministers announced in October 2003 its intent to introduce elections for half of the members of local ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/d_gv.html
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... Arabia acceded to the WTO in December 2005 after many years of negotiations. The government has announced plans to establish six "economic cities" in different regions of the country to promote development ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
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... oil economy onto a higher growth path and reduce poverty. In late 2007, the new government announced plans aimed at increasing spending, reducing poverty, and improving the country's infrastructure, but it ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/e_ec.html
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... leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey mainly to northern Iraq. In 2004, KGK announced an end to its ceasefire and attacks attributed to the KGK increased. Turkey joined the ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/a_fg.html
