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... Although final independence for Ukraine was achieved in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/a_fg.html
remained
... Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/d_gv.html
remained
... in 1992, Britain's economy has enjoyed the longest period of expansion on record; growth has remained in the 2-3% range since 2004, outpacing most of Europe. The economy's strength has ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/e_ec.html
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Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, whose sovereignty remains unresolved; UN-administered cease-fire has remained in effect since September 1991, administered by the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ...
www.exxun.com/WesternSahara/i_ti.html
remaining
... natural fresh water resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials); desertification; air and water pollution
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/b_mp.html
remaining
... UN and other international 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 ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html
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shooting around the salt lake; note - breeding place for loggerhead and green turtles; only remaining colony of griffon vultures is on the base
www.exxun.com/Akrotiri/b_mp.html
remaining
... zone as eastern US financial centers and a relatively highly educated workforce. The government continues its efforts to reduce unemployment, to encourage direct foreign investment, and to privatize remaining state-owned enterprises
www.exxun.com/Barbados/e_ec.html
remaining
... seven ministers of Bhutan's ten-member cabinet resigned to join the political process, leaving the remaining cabinet to act as a caretaker regime until a new government assumes power following parliamentary ...
www.exxun.com/Bhutan/a_fg.html
remaining
... of the islands, Diego Garcia, contains a joint UK-US naval support facility. All of the remaining islands are uninhabited. Former agricultural workers, earlier residents in the islands, were relocated primarily to ...
www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/a_fg.html
remaining
... a Senate (54 seats; 34 members elected by indirect vote to serve five-year terms, with remaining seats assigned to ethnic groups and former chiefs of state) elections: National Assembly - last held ...
www.exxun.com/Burundi/d_gv.html
remaining
... elections in 1998 led to the formation of another coalition government and renewed political stability. The remaining elements of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in early 1999. Some of the remaining Khmer Rouge ...
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
remaining
... of Rwandan forces occupying eastern Congo; two months later, the Pretoria Accord was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and establish a government of national unity. A transitional ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/a_fg.html
remaining
... female prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the eastern Caribbean
www.exxun.com/Dominica/a_fg.html
remaining
... Toomas Hendrik ILVES elected president on 23 September 2006 by a 345-member electoral assembly; ILVES received 174 votes to incumbent Arnold RUUTEL's 162; remaining 9 ballots left blank or invalid
www.exxun.com/Estonia/d_gv.html
remaining
... Slovenia (1 January 2007) and Cyprus and Malta (1 January 2008) have adopted the euro; the remaining nine are legally required to adopt the currency upon meeting EU's fiscal and monetary ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/e_ec.html
remaining
... states that joined the EU in 2004 joined Schengen on 21 December 2007; of the three remaining EU states, Cyprus is expected to join by 2009, while Romania and Bulgaria continue to ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/i_ti.html
remaining
... the power ministries: state security (includes interior) and defense; the prime minister is head of the remaining ministries of government cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers elections: president elected by popular vote for a ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/d_gv.html
remaining
extensive deforestation (much of the remaining forested land is being cleared for agriculture and used as fuel); soil erosion; inadequate supplies of potable water
www.exxun.com/Haiti/b_mp.html
remaining
... assistance operations in North Korea (calling instead for developmental assistance only) and restricted the activities of remaining international and non-governmental aid organizations such as the World Food Program. External food aid ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/e_ec.html
remaining
The government of Laos, one of the few remaining one-party Communist states, began decentralizing control and encouraging private enterprise in 1986. The results, starting from an extremely low base, were striking ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/e_ec.html
