overwhelming
... 250,000 individuals lost their lives. On 30 August 1999, in a UN-supervised popular referendum, an overwhelming majority of the people of Timor-Leste voted for independence from Indonesia. Between the referendum ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
overwhelmingly
... processing, clothing, and handicrafts. Trade deficits are offset by remittances from emigrants and by foreign aid, overwhelmingly from New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country lived beyond its means, maintaining ...
www.exxun.com/CookIslands/e_ec.html
overwhelmingly
... year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating governmental forces; independence was overwhelmingly approved in a 1993 referendum. A two-and-a-half-year border war with Ethiopia ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/a_fg.html
overwhelmingly
... the Gibraltar Government called a referendum in late 2002 in which the majority of citizens voted overwhelmingly against any sharing of sovereignty with Spain. Since the referendum, tripartite talks on other issues ...
www.exxun.com/Gibraltar/a_fg.html
overwhelmingly
in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to reject any "shared sovereignty" arrangement; the government of Gibraltar insists on equal participation in talks between the UK and Spain; Spain disapproves of ...
www.exxun.com/Gibraltar/i_ti.html
overwhelmingly
... AKAYEV, who had run the country since 1990. Subsequent presidential elections in July 2005 were won overwhelmingly by former prime minister Kurmanbek BAKIYEV. The political opposition organized demonstrations in Bishkek in April ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/a_fg.html
overwhelmingly
... the Democratic Union Coalition (DUC) in the 1996 parliamentary election. Since then, parliamentary elections returned the MPRP overwhelmingly to power in 2000, but 2004 elections reduced MPRP representation and, therefore, its authority
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/a_fg.html
overwhelmingly
in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to remain a British colony and against a "total shared sovereignty" arrangement while demanding participation in talks between the UK and Spain; Spain disapproves ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/i_ti.html
overwhelmingly
in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to reject any "shared sovereignty" arrangement between the UK and Spain; the Government of Gibraltar insists on equal participation in talks between the two ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/i_ti.html
OVIEDO
... of government head of government: President Nicanor DUARTE FRUTOS (since 15 August 2003); Vice President Francisco OVIEDO Britez (since 21 November 2007) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president elections: president ...
www.exxun.com/Paraguay/d_gv.html
Ovimbundu
Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22%
www.exxun.com/Angola/c_pp.html
Ovorhangay
... singular - aymag) and 1 municipality* (singular - hot); Arhangay, Bayanhongor, Bayan-Olgiy, Bulgan, Darhan-Uul, Dornod, Dornogovi, Dundgovi, Dzavhan, Govi-Altay, Govisumber, Hentiy, Hovd, Hovsgol, Omnogovi, Orhon, Ovorhangay, Selenge, Suhbaatar, Tov, Ulaanbaatar*, Uvs
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/d_gv.html
owed
$16.79 billion (convertible currency); another $15-20 billion owed to Russia (31 December 2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/Cuba/e_ec.html
owed
... payments from abroad and by foreign loans. Roughly half of the government's external debt is owed to the US, its major source of economic and military aid. Israel's GDP, after ...
www.exxun.com/Israel/e_ec.html
owed
... the London Club of private creditors forgave $1.7 billion of debt just over half the total owed. Belgrade has made only minimal progress in restructuring and privatizing its holdings in major sectors ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/e_ec.html
Owen
... II (since 6 February 1952); represented by the Australian governor general head of government: Acting Administrator Owen WALSH (since October 2007) cabinet: Executive Council is made up of four of the nine ...
www.exxun.com/NorfolkIsland/d_gv.html
owing
... assessment: system being upgraded by foreign investment; nearly all installed telecommunications capacity now uses digital technology, owing to investments since privatization of the formerly state-owned telecommunications company domestic: since privatization, access ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/f_cm.html
own
... assistance, repatriated 2.3 million Afghan refugees with less than a million still remaining, many at their own choosing; Pakistan has proposed and Afghanistan protests construction of a fence and laying of mines ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html
own
the Sovereign Base Area Administration has its own court system to deal with civil and criminal matters; laws applicable to the Cypriot population are, as far as possible, the same as the ...
www.exxun.com/Akrotiri/d_gv.html
own
... military personnel must be given; Article 8 - allows for jurisdiction over observers and scientists by their own states; Article 9 - frequent consultative meetings take place among member nations; Article 10 - treaty states ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/d_gv.html
own
... a federal state, there are now three levels of government (federal, regional, and linguistic community) with a complex division of responsibilities; this reality leaves six governments each with its own legislative assembly
www.exxun.com/Belgium/d_gv.html
own
the Dayton Agreement, signed 14 December 1995 in Paris, included a new constitution now in force; note - each of the entities also has its own constitution
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/d_gv.html
