Islamic Development Bank | ... vide post-secondary education in the wake of the civil war. Financed by the | in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as well as other donor institutions, the universi ... |
Council of the League of Nations | ... ific possessions, including the Marshall Islands. On December 17, 1920, the | approved the mandate for Japan to take over all former German colonies in ... |
Organisation of African Unity | In 1963, Haile Selassie presided over the formation of the | (OAU), the precursor of the continent-wide African Union (AU). The new org ... |
Arab League | The | headquarters is in Cairo, and the Secretary General of the League is tradi ... |
League of Nations | ... , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the | in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a coun ... |
College of Cardinals | On August 15, 1978, he was crowned Pope by four of his newly created | in a coronation held in Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported ... |
Paris Club | ... ater, and direct support to communities. In addition, on March 7, 2001, the | approved a debt cancellation of $161 million. On February 28, 2001, the Af ... |
European Union | ... 3,710 from Europe. In 2005, immigration level fell slightly to 135,890. The | allows free movement between the member states. While the UK (along with I ... |
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission | ... ties in the Pacific. It is a full member of the Pacific Islands Forum, the | , the South Pacific Tourism Organisation, the Pacific Regional Environment ... |
NATO | ... omic Community (which later became the European Union), the United Nations, | , the G7 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. I ... |
African Development Bank | ... lub approved a debt cancellation of $161 million. On February 28, 2001, the | (ADB) approved under the HIPC a debt cancellation of $71.46 million and gr ... |
European Union | On 9 May 2010, the 27 member states of the | agreed to incorporate the European Financial Stability Facility. The EFSF’ ... |
League of Nations | ... ed official ties for trade, communications and transportation. In 1933, the | adopted the Lytton Report, declaring that Manchuria remained rightfully pa ... |
League of Nations | ... al Justice officially resigned in October 1945, and via a resolution by the | on 18 April, the Court ceased to exist, being replaced with the Internatio ... |
CERN | ... ructure was carried out by, among others, Sylvain Lieberman and his team at | in the 1970s and 1980s |
SAARC | ... at, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, | , UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNU, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTo ... |
European Union | ... e largest financial centre in the Eurozone (although not the largest in the | ). Its location in the city is fixed by the Amsterdam Treaty along with ot ... |
League of Corinth | In 336 BC Philip II of Macedonia was authorized by the | as its Hegemon to initiate a sacred war of vengeance against the Persians ... |
Commonwealth | Most fire brigades in | countries (except Canada) have a more "civilianized" nomenclature, structu ... |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization | ... en he took leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the | (NATO), and was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe. Eisenh ... |
Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ... Applied Geoscience Commission, the South Pacific Tourism Organisation, the | and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Kiribati is one of the eight ... |
African Development Bank | construction of a road linking Bamako and Dakar, Senegal. The | is funding the construction of a road linking Bamako and Kankan in Guinea. ... |
EU-27 | The biggest wheat producer in 2009 was | , followed by China, India, Russian Federation, and USA |
Economic Community of West African States | With the exception of Mauritania, all of these countries are members of the | (ECOWAS), which was set up in May 1975. The UN region also includes the is ... |
Free Trade Area of the Americas | ... ent states. The 2005 Buenos Aires talks on the planned establishment of the | (FTAA) failed largely because of opposition from the populations of Latin ... |
European Union | ... thuanian is the state language of Lithuania and an official language of the | |
League of Nations | ... ould leave Ethiopia with his family and present the case of Ethiopia to the | at Geneva. The decision was not unanimous and several participants, includ ... |
OAU | ... D, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, MIPONUH, MONUC, NAM, | , OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMEE, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU ... |
European Union | ... an leaders were anxious to restrict Japanese access to the newly integrated | (until November 1993, the European Community), but others appeared open to ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... several other regional arrangements such as MERCOSUR in South America, the | (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the European Uni ... |
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America | ... erican Energy Organization, the Latin American Integration Association, the | , the Andean Community of Nations and the Union of South American Nations ... |
European Union | ... as read by Heaney at a ceremony for the twenty-five leaders of the enlarged | arranged by the Irish EU presidency |
European Union | ... ldwide Cost of Living Survey, Dublin is the 13th most expensive city in the | (down from 10th in 2010) and the 58th most expensive place to live in the ... |
Warsaw Pact | ... ideology by Soviet propaganda after World War II within the Eastern bloc ( | ) was a forced high-level political and economic hegemony of the USSR domi ... |
Commonwealth | ... Hawthorn Memorial Trophy has been awarded to the most successful British or | F1 driver every year since |
European Union | ... le of Wight and turning that island into an independent member state of the | — a project which quite soon develops its own momentum and which survives ... |
League of Nations | ... kans, forced population transfer was used by the Great Powers and later the | as a mechanism for increasing homogeneity in post-Ottoman Balkan states. A ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | In the discussion leading up to the passage of the | (NAFTA) then-Vice President Al Gore mentioned the Smoot-Hawley tariff as a ... |
Observer status | ... s the USA, are not members (although the US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has | , and the US Virgin Islands announced in 2007 they would seek ties with CA ... |
Organisation of African Unity | ... as most UN offices in Ethiopia. It is also the site of the founding of the | (OAU) which eventually became the African Union. The African Union is now ... |
European Union | ... iji, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the | . It has diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan); the ROC ... |
French Community | ... fied their opposition to what they labeled neocolonialism, singling out the | of independent states organised by the former colonial power. In its four ... |
European Union | Iceland has had a close relationship with the | (EU) throughout its development, but has remained outside (instead, joinin ... |
Popular Front | ... ir home countries had a right-wing government (in France, for instance, the | was not in power any more) |
League of Nations | ... gation Convention, the Treaty of St. Germain and all mandates signed by the | . It was also foreseen that there would be clauses inserted in bipartite i ... |
European Union | ... atic powers, joined the European Economic Community (which later became the | ), the United Nations, NATO, the G7 and the Organisation for Economic Co-o ... |
Mercosur | ... ong way away. Already, some member states of regional sub-groupings such as | and the Andean Community of Nations issue passports that bear their offici ... |
League of Nations | ... , La Guardia consistently backed internationalism, speaking in favor of the | and the Inter-Parliamentary Union as well as peace and disarmament confere ... |
Pacific Islands Forum | ... i maintains strong regional ties in the Pacific. It is a full member of the | , the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, the South Pacific Touri ... |
European Community | ... ese access to the newly integrated European Union (until November 1993, the | ), but others appeared open to Japanese trade and investment. In partial r ... |
NATO | ... for several units are located. These include US Army, Europe (USAREUR) and | 's Component Command-Land Headquarters. (Until 2004, this was designated J ... |
NATO | ... in late 2001, the military of Afghanistan is being rebuilt and reformed by | military alliance, mainly by the United States armed forces. Despite early ... |
European Union | Morocco signed in 1996 an agreement of association with the | which came into effect in 2000. This agreement, which lies within the scop ... |
European Union | ... ade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the | between 27 independent states. The 2005 Buenos Aires talks on the planned ... |
European Union | ... eir environmental, cultural or historical value to the member states of the | |
European Economic Community | ... back to international politics among Western democratic powers, joined the | (which later became the European Union), the United Nations, NATO, the G7 ... |
League of Nations | ... ew forms of cooperation between nations, and supporting the creation of the | |
European Union | The Heysel Project is a potential | (EU) "quarter" development in the Heysel. The area surrounding the Atomium ... |
European Union | ... xual partnership. The party's unclear stance on Norwegian membership of the | also contributed greatly to the setback, by moving the focus away from the ... |
European Union | ... ra 2000 is an ecological network of protected areas in the territory of the | |
NATO | The U.S. Air Force, in conjunction with the members of | , has developed significant tactics for air defence suppression. Dedicated ... |
P4 agreement | ... ch was extended in 2005 to include Chile and Brunei and is now known as the | . New Zealand is seeking other bilateral/regional trade agreements in the ... |
European Community | ... ly used by much of mainland Europe, was adopted by all the countries in the | in 1980. Using the IOLM scale or the Gay-Lussac scale is essentially the s ... |
European Union | ... ratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Japan, South Korea, the | and the African Union |
European Economic Community | ... most important events in modern Irish history, was Ireland's entry into the | . Lynch personally steered the application for membership and the acceptan ... |
ECO | AsDB, CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, | , ESCAP, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, ... |
CERN | ... erification of perturbative QCD at the level of a few percent at the LEP in | |
Council of Europe | ... term Romani is used by most organizations—including the United Nations, the | , and the US Library of Congress. |
European Union | ... he European Ombudsman (or sometimes Euro-Ombudsman) is an ombudsman for the | , based in the Salvador de Madariaga Building in Strasbourg |
League of Nations | ... bilateral treaties and had the support of international bodies such as the | . The tide started to turn when the charter of the Nuremberg Trials of Ger ... |
Paris Club | ... ith the support of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the | of creditors. The country's currency, the dirham, is now fully convertible ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... i became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. It is a member of the | , the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the United Natio ... |
International Hydrographic Organization | The | defines the limits of the Bass Strait as follows |
Warsaw Pact | ... be destroyed by a nuclear weapon during the escalating war between NATO and | forces that eventually leads to a full scale nuclear exchange between the ... |
Arab League | ... both in the Arab world and in his own country. Egypt was suspended from the | until 1989. Until then, Egypt had been "at the helm of the Arab world." Eg ... |
European Union | The | is represented within the G8 but cannot host or chair summits |
European Union | Research using a series of victim surveys in 18 countries of the | funded by the European Commission has reported (2005) that the level of cr ... |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | ... ened Moderation". Pakistan is also a member of Commonwealth of Nations, the | (SAARC), the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) and the G20 developin ... |
Islamic Development Bank | ... including Japan, India, Australia, and European and Arab countries (such as | and the Kuwaiti Fund) also have contributed. See: Economic Aid to Maldive |
CERN | ... article theory. In 1981, Hagelin won a postdoctoral research appointment at | (the European Center for Particle Physics) in Switzerland, and in 1983 was ... |
European Union | ... e copyrights on all Gershwin's solo works expired at the end of 2007 in the | , based on the life plus 70 years rule in force in the EU |
League of Corinth | ... Philip's heir, Alexander, who had himself been confirmed as Hegemon by the | , invaded Asia Minor at the head of a combined Macedonian and Greek army. ... |
Economic Community of West African States | ... affairs, although its representation abroad is limited. As a member of the | (ECOWAS), The Gambia has played an active role in that organization's effo ... |
Arab Maghreb Union | ... neighboring countries has hindered bilateral collaboration and has left the | (UMA) project almost inactive. Morocco has been aligned with the United St ... |
League of Nations | ... bilateral treaties and had the support of international bodies such as the | . Even the expulsion of Germans from central and eastern Europe after Worl ... |
NATO | ... city to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon during the escalating war between | and Warsaw Pact forces that eventually leads to a full scale nuclear excha ... |
Camphill Movement | ... Steiner/Waldorf education, special education (most prominently through the | ), agriculture, medicine, ethical banking, organizational development, and ... |
NATO | ... al experimental versions of the Sheridan mounting a new turret carrying the | -standard 105mm gun were made, but the resulting recoil was so great as to ... |
NATO | ... August 1974 Greek forces withdrew from the integrated military structure of | in protest at the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus. The first multipa ... |
Caribbean Community | ... hamas is not geographically located in the Caribbean, it is a member of the | . The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Juris ... |
European Union | ... numerous international organizations, including the Council of Europe, the | , the Union for the Mediterranean and the United Nations, of which it is a ... |
Council of Europe | Greece is a member of numerous international organizations, including the | , the European Union, the Union for the Mediterranean and the United Natio ... |
European Union | ... D-883 Method 3015, and the ESD Association's ESD STM5.1. For comportment to | standards for Information Technology Equipment, the IEC-61000-4-2 test spe ... |
Union of South American Nations | The declaration adopted in Cusco, Peru, establishing the | , signalled an intention to establish a common passport design, but this a ... |
G20 developing nations | ... al Cooperation (SAARC), the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) and the | . India's nuclear tests were seen as a threat to Pakistan and led it to es ... |
European Union | Similarly to the rest of the | member states and American democracies, controlled drugs are illegal in th ... |
League of Nations | ... lson's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the | . They were also staunchly opposed to intervention in World War II until t ... |
European Union | ... ich is greatly dependent on international trade, mainly with Australia, the | , the United States, China, South Korea and Japan. It has only small manuf ... |
European Union | ... he Second World War), several of these ideals re-emerged in the form of the | |
Council of Arab Economic Unity | ... f the Arab League, GAFTA, WTO, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the | and the UN |
N.A.T.O. | ... atoga, on October 10 and directed to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella, a | base in Sicily, where the hijackers were arrested by the Italians after a ... |
CERN | In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was a contractor at | , proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use an ... |
European Union | ... al production in general by 13.4%. Currently, Greece is ranked third in the | in the production of marble (over 920,000 tons) after Italy and Spain |
European Union | Most of the FDIs injected in Morocco came from the | with France, the major economic partner of the North African kingdom, topp ... |
European Union | ... as a food colorant, and is listed in the USA as FD&C Blue No. 2, and in the | as E Number E132 |
Commonwealth of Nations | Kiribati was admitted to the | in 1979. Kirbati became a member of the United Nations in 1999; however, t ... |
Warsaw Pact | ... arly 1980s the M551A1 was fitted with a visual modification kit to resemble | vehicles at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. These ... |
League of Nations | ... cedure and the appointment of Court officials, the Secretary-General of the | passed an emergency resolution through the Assembly which designated an of ... |
GCC countries | ... luding the European Union, India, Hong Kong, Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, | , Russia, South Africa, Singapore and Turkey. As of August 2008, more than ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... ties among nations in Western Europe and to the United States-Canada-Mexico | , Japan and other countries along the Asia-Pacific rim began moving in the ... |
European Union | The Lublin region had the lowest per capita GDP in the | until Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007 (it was 32% of EU average in 200 ... |
Council of Europe | ... signed in Strasbourg, 6 November 1997) is a comprehensive convention of the | dealing with the law of nationality |
European Union | ... . The multilateral donors providing development assistance in 2009 were the | (A$9 million), the United Nations Development Program (A$3.7 million), and ... |
NATO | ... , Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and | representatives |
European Union | | relations with Egypt are based on a partnership relation within the Euro – ... |
Secretariat of the Pacific Community | ... ic Tourism Organisation, the Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the | . Kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerni ... |
NATO | ... rt-time in the National Guard. Service in the Guard is paid. As a member of | , the Greek military participates in exercises and deployments under the a ... |
European Union | ... a so-called developed country. With the highest sustained GDP growth in the | , reporting 10.4% in 2007 and the highest rating from V4 countries, the Sl ... |
European Community | ... later, on 8 June 2008, the G8 along with China, India, South Korea and the | established the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperatio ... |
League of Corinth | ... ebes and eventually Macedon, with the latter uniting the Greek world in the | (also known as the Hellenic League or Greek League) under the guidance of ... |
European Union | The European Investment Fund, established in 1994, is a | agency for the provision of finance to SMEs (small and medium-sized enterp ... |
League of Nations | ... rmans as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and was excluded from the | . Thus, Germany seized the chance to make an ally. Walther Rathenau, the J ... |
Economic Cooperation Organization | ... Cyprus, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Turkmenistan is a member of the | (ECO) |
CERN | ... who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for | researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo ... |
Organization of American States | ... g with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the | , and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its be ... |
Cambodian Salvation Front | The Khmer Viet Minh were instrumental in the foundation of the | (FUNSK) in 1978. The FUNSK invaded Cambodia along with the Vietnamese Army ... |
NATO | ... he system for the following forty years. Italy joined the Marshall Plan and | . By 1950, the economy had largely stabilized and started booming. In 1957 ... |
League of Nations | In the early 1920s, there was a proposal for the | to accept Esperanto as their working language. Ten delegates accepted the ... |
League of Nations | ... isted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the | to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who would put them befo ... |
American Association for the Advancement of Science | Atanasoff first met Mauchly at the December 1940 meeting of the | in Philadelphia, where Mauchly was demonstrating his "harmonic analyzer", ... |
French Union | ... al Army (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought in joint operations with the | 's French Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist Viet Minh for ... |
League of Nations | ... n to back Italy's aggression was Nazi Germany. After being condemned by the | , Italy decided to leave the League on December 11, 1937 and Mussolini den ... |
League of Nations | ... ar. The Republican government of Juan Negrín, announced the decision in the | on 21 September 1938. The disbandment was part of an ill-advised effort to ... |
British Commonwealth | ... the XV International Brigade, which was composed of the British Battalion ( | and Irish), the Dimitrov Battalion (miscellaneous Balkan nationalities), t ... |
European Union | In many parts of the world, including much of the | and United States, acts of violence are legally classified as hate crimes, ... |
CAEU | ... of ABEDA, ACC, ACCT (associate), AfDB, AFESD, AL, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), | , CTBT, EBRD, ECA, ESCWA, FAO, G-15, G-19, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, I ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | In the early 1990s, Helms was a vocal opponent of the | (NAFTA) |
Warsaw Pact | ... the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the changes in the former | countries, led to an increase in recruitment from Poland and from the form ... |
NATO | ... ent of the Polaris armed submarine fleet with Trident missiles in 1982. The | exercise Able Archer 83 also added to international tension. CND attracted ... |
League of Nations | ... presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a platform of opposition to the | , high tariffs, and promotion of business interests |
NATO | ... the United Kingdom, France, and Federal Republic of Germany (all members of | ). In addition, it also sometimes included anti-communist states of the Br ... |
League of Nations | ... lations with the international community as in 1934, Afghanistan joined the | while also receiving formal recognition from the United States. Throughout ... |
European Union | The SPÖ–ÖVP coalition persisted until 1999. Austria joined the | in 1995 , and Austria was set on the track towards joining the zone, when ... |
French Union | ... he return of the French in exchange for promises of independence within the | , and the Chinese agreed to leave. Negotiations between the French and Việ ... |
League of Nations | ... ure, the Saar was separated from the Rhine Province and administered by the | until a plebiscite in 1935, when the region was returned to the German Rei ... |
Commonwealth | ... er the births of two children to his elder brother, and an evolution of the | , Prince Andrew is currently fourth in line to the thrones of 16 countries ... |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization | Increased interest would turn the LWF into a serious acquisition program. | (NATO) allies Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway were seeking t ... |
College of Cardinals | Under the 1587 decree of Pope Sixtus V, which fixed the maximum size of the | , there were 14 cardinal deacons. Later the number increased. As of 2005, ... |
OAS | ... marsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, | (observer), OAU, OIC, OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UN ... |
European Union | ... embers. ASEAN as a group hopes to establish a free trade agreement with the | by 2009 |
Economic Community of West African States | The | (ECOWAS), founded by the 1975 Treaty of Lagos, is an organization of West ... |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain | ... nd cells of the NUC, namely the communist National Liberation Front and the | , the Bahraini section of the Arab Nationalist Movement |
European Union | On 9 May 2010, the 27 member states of the | agreed to incorporate the European Financial Stability Facility. The EFSF’ ... |
European Union | ... rd, individual rights and responsibilities. It is strongly in favour of the | and opposed to physical force republicanism. The party's youth wing, Young ... |
European Economic Community | ... stabilized and started booming. In 1957 Italy was a founding member of the | , which later transformed into the European Union (EU) |
European Union | ... ns formal diplomatic relations with 179 sovereign states, and also with the | , and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, as well as having relations o ... |
European Union | ... 7th worldwide. Since the entry of Greece to the European Community (now the | ), a number of important projects (such as the Egnatia Odos and the Attiki ... |
League of Nations | ... y expected that one would be established. Article 14 of the Covenant of the | , created after the Treaty of Versailles, allowed the League to investigat ... |
British Commonwealth | ... te jurisdiction in the colonies at all. Anticipating the arrangement of the | , by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas ... |
NATO | ... gainst missiles and hostile aircraft. These consist of either three or four | RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile launchers designed for defense against aircraft ... |
GCC | ... f 9/11 and the "war on terror". This has resulted in countries, such as the | (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates), choosing to in ... |
Pacific Islands Forum | ... 0s and 1980s. The South Pacific Forum was founded in 1971, which became the | in 2000. Bougainville Island, geographically part of the Solomon Islands b ... |
Pacific Islands Forum | ... nd became a full member of the UN in 1999. Kiribati hosted the Thirty-First | in October 2000. Kiribati has Least Developed Country Status and its inter ... |
College of Cardinals | ... Monday, 16 October 1978. The next day he celebrated Mass together with the | in the Sistine Chapel. After the Mass, he delivered his first Urbi et Orbi ... |
League of Nations | ... nsion, however, with Japan and Germany announcing their withdrawal from the | , to come into effect in 1935. This did not directly affect the Court, sin ... |
EU | Spanish teams are limited to three players without | citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of eac ... |
League of Nations | ... dernization initiated by Menelik II. He secured Ethiopia's admission to the | in 1923 by promising to eradicate slavery; each emperor since Tewodros II ... |
Comecon | ... gistered a catastrophic fall in the early 1990s in many parts of the former | - most notably, in the former Soviet Union - and began to rise again only ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | In some countries, especially in the | , judges sometimes wear wigs. The long wig often associated with judges is ... |
European Community | ... 8 km are highways, ranking 37th worldwide. Since the entry of Greece to the | (now the European Union), a number of important projects (such as the Egna ... |
OAU | ... t, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS(observer), | , OIC, OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UN ... |
The Commonwealth | Kiribati is a full member of | , the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the UN in 1999. ... |
European Union | ... ithout Windows Media Player. The Commission concluded that Microsoft "broke | competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC opera ... |
European Union | ... equire extensive certification before they can be legally imported into the | , where there is considerable supplier and consumer reluctance to use GM p ... |
European Union | ... ndent countries under Soviet occupation. Their position is supported by the | , the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Coun ... |
League of Nations | ... ed in 1927. Canada became an active member of the British Commonwealth, the | , and the World Court, none of which included the U.S |
West African Development Bank | ... (UEMOA), which groups seven West African countries using the CFA franc. The | (BOAD), which is associated with UEMOA, is based in Lomé. Togo long served ... |
Arab League | ... relations. Both being predominantly Arab countries they are members of the | , GAFTA, WTO, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Council of Arab ... |
European Union | IFRS are used in many parts of the world, including the | , India, Hong Kong, Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, GCC countries, Russia, ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... oreign competition following the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and | , the remaining rayon mill (owned by the North American Rayon Corporation) ... |
European Union | ... has used the ABV standard to measure alcohol content, as prescribed by the | |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation | ... ir common interest in the Pacific community, including participation in the | forum (APEC) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) |
NATO | ... imposed western institutions and dress, embraced the Latin alphabet, joined | , and is seeking to join the European Union. Mexico and Russia are also co ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... independence on February 18, 1965, as a constitutional monarchy within the | |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... rnia State Route 86S expressway or the "NAFTA highway" (in reference to the | ) for international traffic |
European Union | ... olvement in national politics after his defeat, he became involved with the | . He notably presided over the Convention on the Future of the European Un ... |
EU | ... e fifth-most-used internationally for shipping, while it ranks first in the | |
European Union | ... merican Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the | , AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integr ... |
European Union | The | follows recommendations of the International Organization of Legal Metrolo ... |
Arab League | ... Egypt was subsequently ostracized by other Arab states and ejected from the | from 1979 to 1989 |
League of Nations | ... 921 an influenza epidemic caused the deaths of 230 islanders." In 1923, the | gave Australia a trustee mandate over Nauru, with the United Kingdom and N ... |
SCO | ... , IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OSCE, PFP, | , UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO (o ... |
League of Nations | ... erican involvement in the First World War and attacked the formation of the | . Hearst's last bid for office came in 1922 when he was backed by Tammany ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the | , the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA ... |
International Hydrographic Organization | The | defines the limits of the "Eastern China Sea (Tung Hai)" as follows |
NATO | ... the 5.56 mm AK-101 standard rifle and 5.56 mm AK-102 carbine (both use the | -standard 5.56×45mm cartridge), 7.62 mm AK-103 assault rifle and 7.62 mm A ... |
European Union | ... re for private equity funds. However, while Guernsey is not a member of the | , the EU is forcing Guernsey to comply more and more with its rules. As wi ... |
European Union | One of the | 's areas of interest is the information society. Here policies are directe ... |
NATO | ... called to the Ionian Sea to support Operation Allied Force alongside other | militaries |
EU | ... servicing the external debt; preparing the economy for freer trade with the | ; and improving education and attracting foreign investment to improve liv ... |
European Union | ... r comment (an illegal practice across the larger practice areas such as the | |
OAU | ... h a city and a state. It is where the African Union and its predecessor the | are based. It also hosts the headquarters of the United Nations Economic C ... |
European Union | On 1 May 2004, during Ireland's six-month presidency of the | , Áras an Uachtarain was the Venue for the European Day of Welcomes (Acces ... |
the EU | ... e no longer carried out at the crossings. However, Switzerland did not join | customs regime and customs checks are still conducted at or near the cross ... |
Latin Union | ... e, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan are the official languages of the | ; and French and Spanish are two of the six official languages of the Unit ... |
French Community | The | and the later Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie are defined b ... |
Economic Community of West African States | ... ing it to Conakry (Guinea), Monrovia (Liberia), and 11 other nations of the | (ECOWAS) |
European Union | ... dy following the fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel in 1999, inspectors from the | rated the Kingsway Tunnel as "good", one of only eight to receive that rat ... |
Central American Integration System | ... ganization, World Customs Organization the Inter-American Development Bank, | , and ACP Group |
AfDB | Egypt is member of ABEDA, ACC, ACCT (associate), | , AFESD, AL, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CTBT, EBRD, ECA, ESCWA, FAO, ... |
Economic Community of West African States | La Francophonie, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and | |
G7 | ... 77, President Roy Jenkins became the first Commission President to attend a | summit on behalf of the Community |
European Free Trade Association | ... rea agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the | at the horizons of 2012; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | The Bahamas is a member of the | , and a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state (repre ... |
SADC | PCA, | |
European Union | ... ing an interest in establishing free-trade agreements with Malaysia are the | and Hong Kong. However, before any talks can be initiated regarding new FT ... |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation | In 1991 the PRC joined the | group, a trade-promotion forum. In 2001, it also joined the World Trade Or ... |
European Union | ... ut between film-makers present at Cannes Festival. Action, was sponsored by | |
Regional Cooperation for Development | ... nvaded the neighboring country of Afghanistan. In 1964, Pakistan signed the | (RCD) Pact with Turkey and Iran, when all three countries were closely all ... |
G7 | ... ld Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the | , G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of ... |
Wikileaks | In March 2008, | published a 612-page Scientology manual on the eight different Operating T ... |
NATO | | defines air defence as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the eff ... |
Community of Sahel-Saharan States | It is a member of the African Union, | |
European Union | The | (EU) launched proceedings against these provisions in the World Trade Orga ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... ern and eastern Africa. It is a member of the World Trade Organization, the | , La Francophonie, the African Union, the Southern Africa Development Comm ... |
League of Nations | ... neity in post-Ottoman Balkan states. A Norwegian diplomat, working with the | as a High Commissioner for Refugees beginning in 1919, proposed the idea o ... |
WADB | ... MIPONUH, MONUC, NAM, OAU, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMEE, UPU, | (regional), WAEMU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTr |
GCC | ... ted by a government contribution of 1%. This makes Bahrain the first of the | countries to implement a UI scheme |
AL | Egypt is member of ABEDA, ACC, ACCT (associate), AfDB, AFESD, | , AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CTBT, EBRD, ECA, ESCWA, FAO, G-15, G-19, ... |
East African Community | Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania comprise the | . Each country may issue, to an eligible citizen, an East African passport ... |
European Union | ... alian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian are also official languages of the | . Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan are the offi ... |
European Union | ... of conservation as part of the Natura 2000 network of sites throughout the | |
League of Nations | ... ive branch, the administration's opponents defeated the ratification of the | treaty and effectively returned the United States to an isolationist forei ... |
British Commonwealth | In the | countries, its collective provisions provide for nationals to commute betw ... |
G8 | ... ank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, | , G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of indu ... |
Council of Europe | In 1963, Switzerland joined the | . Women were granted the right to vote only in 1971, and an equal rights a ... |
College of Cardinals | ... to certain important benefices were to be made only with the consent of the | . Upon taking office, Paul II was to convene an ecumenical council within ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... gricultural subsidies. Concerns in Canada also run high over aspects of the | (NAFTA) such as Chapter 11 |
NATO | ... ch response to France's decision under President Charles de Gaulle to leave | 's integrated command structure. During this period he received the nickna ... |
Economic Community of West African States | ... s practised throughout the country (as well as by many other members of the | ). The levels are Primary, Junior Secondary School (JSS), Senior Secondary ... |
European Union | ... European Capital of Culture within the framework of cultural policy of the | , that she had conceived and proposed in 1983, with Athens inaugurating th ... |
Mercosur | ... tionals can travel within their respective regional economic zones, such as | and the Andean Community of Nations, or on a bilateral basis (e.g., betwee ... |
European Union | ... Europe, the former Soviet Union, and North America. Since 2005 citizens of | and EFTA, USA, Canada, Japan and South Korea no longer require a visa to v ... |
CERN | ... agelin was a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( | ) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and is now Professor ... |
Council of Europe | ... on and Development; European Economic Area; European Free Trade Association | ;; International Criminal Police Organization; and the United Nations, sin ... |
Economic Community of West African States | The member states of the | (ECOWAS) do not require passports for their citizens traveling within the ... |
Euro-Mediterranean free trade area | ... nts that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The | agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the Eu ... |
CERN | ... n Weinberg and, subsequently, Sheldon Glashow. After the discovery, made at | , of the existence of neutral weak currents, mediated by the boson forese ... |
Arab League | ... ce of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was created by the | in the summer of 1964. On 31 December of that same year, a squad from al-A ... |
European Union | The | , in the principal statement of its Badinter Committee, follows the Montev ... |
NATO | ... tate admitted to the Council of Europe. In addition to its participation in | 's Partnership for Peace program, Moldova is also a member state of the Un ... |
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission | ... l Kench at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Arthur Webb at the | in Fiji released a study in 2010 on the dynamic response of reef islands t ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... most of the British Empire. Bobbies can still be found in many parts of the | . The primary role of the police in Britain was keeping the Queen's Peace, ... |
G-77 | G-15, | |
Union of South American Nations | ... air. There are plans to extend these rights to all of South America under a | , and it already extends them (since 2006) to every South American country ... |
Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf | Citizens of the | countries need only national ID cards (also referred to as civil ID cards) ... |
G-15 | FAO, | |
CERN | Although other browsers at the time were based on | 's WWW libraries called libwww, PCs of the time were not powerful enough t ... |
European Union | ... mic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the | with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at t ... |
European Union | ... ldova had established relations with other European countries. A course for | integration and neutrality define the country's foreign policy guidelines |
Group of Five | ... es in addition to the five "outreach countries" which are also known as the | — Brazil, People's Republic of China, India, Mexico, and South Africa |
North American Free Trade Agreement | After the | (NAFTA) went into effect in 1994, Mexico tried exporting avocados to the U ... |
League of Nations | ... t to the claim. The Court justified this by saying that the Covenant of the | allowed them jurisdiction in cases over "the existence of any fact which, ... |
C | AfDB, | |
College of Cardinals | ... ernment of the See, and therefore of the Catholic Church, then falls to the | . Canon law prohibits the College and the Camerlengo from introducing any ... |
Council of Europe | Women gained voting rights in 1960. Having joined the | as a full member in 1988, San Marino held the rotating chair of the organi ... |
AfDB | ACP, | |
Commonwealth | ... t Islands which became Kiribati. Tuvalu became fully independent within the | on October 1, 1978. On September 5, 2000, Tuvalu became the 189th member o ... |
European Union | The | has regulated processing of food by ionizing radiation in specific directi ... |
European Union | ... y hikes in subsidized utilities prices ahead of Slovakia’s accession to the | . In July 2005, the inflation rate dropped to 2.0% and is projected at les ... |
Council of Europe | In 1995 the country became the first post-Soviet state admitted to the | . In addition to its participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace program ... |
International Council of Societies of Industrial Design | The city was named the World Design Capital for 2014 by the | |
League of Nations | On 22 February 1937 the | Non-Intervention Committee ban on foreign volunteers went into effect |
European Union | The | Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection of 1993 extended ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | During the twentieth century, the | evolved from the British Empire. Prior to 1926, the British Crown reigned ... |
European Union | ... an international outcry and resulted in a travel ban on Lukashenko from the | and the United States. Although the ambassadors eventually returned after ... |
IDB | ... ECA, ESCWA, FAO, G-15, G-19, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, | , IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, ... |
European Union | ... n the rapprochement between Poland and Ukraine, and between Ukraine and the | |
NATO | ... ge and/or dockage facilities for transiting U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and | vessels, depending on size.. An additional U.S. Navy compound known as Nav ... |
NATO | Most chemical weapons are assigned a one- to three-letter " | weapon designation" in addition to, or in place of, a common name. Binary ... |
Arab League | Morocco is a member of the United Nations and belongs to the | , Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the ... |
League of Nations | ... nomically and therefore condemned to economic misery. Benedict rejected the | as a secular organisation that was not built on Christian values. On the o ... |
World Federation of Great Towers | Tokyo Tower, a member of the | , is utilized by several organizations for various broadcasting purposes. ... |
European Union | ... lf of the country's public debt in 2009 and 3.5 times the receipts from the | in the period 2000-2013). The same ECSA report showed that there are appro ... |
League of Nations | The | ' World Economic Conference met at Geneva in 1927, concluding in its final ... |
European Union | Lukashenko's inauguration ceremony of 22 January 2011 was boycotted by | ambassadors, while fellow CIS countries did send officials not higher than ... |
NATO | Currently, | is involved in the patrolling and protection of the Latvian air space as t ... |
League of Nations | ... between the Soviet Union and Germany. In 1926, Germany was admitted to the | as a permanent member, improving her international standing and giving her ... |
Pacific Regional Environment Programme | According to the | (previously South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)), two sma ... |
European Community | Under Protocol 3, Jersey is part of the European Union Customs Union of the | . The common customs tariff, levies and other agricultural import measures ... |
Warsaw Pact | ... same time, hard-line Communists in Czechoslovakia and the leaders of other | countries pressured Dubček to rein in the Prague Spring. Though Dubček wan ... |
CCASG | ... cluding MSX2 and MSX2+ models. The most popular and affordable model within | was the Sakhr MSX AX170. They were also the first to Arabize BASIC and the ... |
European Union | ... held a video conference with the European Parliament in Brussels urging the | not to lift the arms embargo on the People's Republic of China |
Commonwealth | ... (noted by RS in the list below) per capita than any other university in the | |
Latin American Integration Association | ... Latin American Economic System, the Latin American Energy Organization, the | , the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, the Andean Commu ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... lowing year, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka, and became a republic within the | , with the last Governor General becoming the first President of Sri Lanka ... |
CERN | ... ved. Producing Higgs bosons is a major goal of the Large Hadron Collider at | |
College of Cardinals | ... siastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the | , which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include a ... |
G8 | ... the Council of Ministers. Outside the Union he attends the meetings of the | to represent the Union. However in foreign affairs, he does have to compet ... |
British Commonwealth | ... porter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee's proposal to transform the | from a club of white dominions into a multi-racial partnership. The leader ... |
European Union | In the | , aerospace companies such as EADS, BAE Systems, Thales, Dassault, Saab AB ... |
League of Nations | At the | in 1936, the emperor condemned the use of chemical weapons by Italy agains ... |
G7 | ... natyshyn. At the time, Canada had one of the highest annual deficits of the | countries. Standard & Poor's had lowered its rating on Canada's foreign-de ... |
Arab Maghreb Union | Morocco is a member of the United Nations and belongs to the Arab League, | (UMA), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement ... |
European Union | The Baltic states have received funding from the | to build new lines with standard gauge. Portugal and the Spanish Renfe sys ... |
Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation | Along with the | , an organization that included many dissatisfied former Khmer Rouge membe ... |
European Union | Ceuta (like Melilla) was a free port before Spain joined the | . As of 2011, it has a population of 78,674. Its population consists of Ch ... |
Council of Europe | ... rnational organizations, including the United Nations General Assembly, the | , UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ... |
European Union | ... erating capacity. This is up to 25% of the estimated total capacity for the | |
Commonwealth | ... unding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). It also is a member of the | , the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the World ... |
European Union | In 2010, Greece was the | 's largest producer of cotton (183,800 tons) and pistachios (8,000 tons) a ... |
Arab League | The | unanimously condemned the war, with the exception of Kuwait. Saudi Foreign ... |
Community of Sahel-Saharan States | ... Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement and the | (CEN_SAD). Morocco’s relationships vary greatly between African, Arab, and ... |
NATO | ... s and magazines in Kosovo and Afghanistan, where German soldiers serve with | |
Organization of American States | ... as, and flown into exile. Elections were scheduled, but then cancelled. The | condemned the coup, and the United Nations set up a trade embargo. A campa ... |
Caribbean Community | Haiti is the most populous full member-state of the | (CARICOM)-bloc. It is the poorest country in the Americas as per the Human ... |
Council of Europe | Lublin is also a pilot city of the | and the European Commission Intercultural cities programme |
NATO | ... he United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, | 's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership; World Health Organiza ... |
European Free Trade Association | ... anisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; European Economic Area | ;; Council of Europe; International Criminal Police Organization; and the ... |
NATO | ... o the south of the Gap as well. This was a serious problem, because much of | s anti-submarine strategy was based on closing the Gap, with the implicit ... |
Organization of American States | ... 14 July 1969, the Salvadoran army launched an attack against Honduras. The | negotiated a cease-fire which took effect on 20 July, with the Salvadoran ... |
Warsaw Pact | On the night of 20–21 August 1968, | forces entered Czechoslovakia. The occupying armies quickly seized control ... |
Privacy International | ... edia was supported in this matter by the National Union of Journalists, and | , along with others. This incident ended several months later with no char ... |
European Union | ... ish city and an autonomous community. Ceuta is part of the territory of the | . The city was a free port before Spain joined the European Union in 1986. ... |
European Union | ... , which was prepared by representatives of the International Monetary Fund, | , Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations a ... |
Unidad Popular | ... Worker") and Te Recuerdo Amanda ("I Remember You Amanda"). He supported the | ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate Salvador Allende for the presidency ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | Following Independence in 1947, India remained in the | , and relations between the UK and India have been friendly. There are man ... |
European Union | ... and while it participates in the Common Travel Area, it is not part of the | |
League of Nations | An international conference on passports and through tickets, held by the | in 1920, recommended that passports be issued in French, historically the ... |
League of Nations | ... e, often called the World Court, was an international court attached to the | . Created in 1922 (although the idea of an international court was several ... |
Rio Group | ... s specialized agencies) and a member of many regional groups, including the | , the Latin American Economic System, the Latin American Energy Organizati ... |
European Union | ... tion other than Japan. Additionally, Greece represents 41.49% of all of the | 's dwt. However, today's fleet roster is smaller than an all-time high of ... |
League of Nations | In 1920, the | held a conference on passports and through tickets. Passport guidelines an ... |
Popular Front | By the middle of the decade Renoir was associated with the | , and several of his films, such as The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime ... |
European Union | ... gn investors in Morocco. From the total foreign investments in Morocco, the | invests approximately 73.5%, whereas, the Arab world invests only 19.3%. M ... |
European Union | The requirements of ISO 14000 are an integral part of the | ‘s environmental management scheme EMAS. EMAS‘s structure and material req ... |
European Union | ... or Plan"), attracted important groups of immigrant workers from outside the | , especially from Africa and South America |
Economic Community of West African States | ... imbuktu (temporarily) as well as Kidal and Gao. Neighbouring countries (the | (ECOWAS)) froze assets and imposed an embargo, leaving some with only days ... |
European Union | The | 's statistical agency, Eurostat, has created a concept named Larger Urban ... |
Warsaw Pact | ... , now became worried about the demoralization of the Polish army, a crucial | component, because of it being used against Polish workers. They withdrew ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... he dominions of the empire into separate, self-governing countries within a | . After the Second World War, the vast majority of British colonies and te ... |
Council of Europe | The Holy See participates as an observer in AU, Arab League, | , OAS, IOM, and in the UN and its agencies FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, UNEP, UNESCO, ... |
SAARC | ... ad of Bangladesh. Its 2.03% population growth rate is the highest among the | countries and gives an annual increase of 3.6 million. The population is p ... |
European Union | ... using to accept the torn country, though if Turkey gained membership of the | it has been noted that many of its people would support Westernization. If ... |
International Hydrographic Organization | The | defines the limits of the Sea of Marmara as follows |
Council of Europe | ... ile the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), EU and | highlighted some positive aspects, while stating that "the conduct of the ... |
Pacific Islands Forum | ... nt Bank in 1991 and to the United Nations in 1999. Nauru is a member of the | , the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, the South Pacific Comm ... |
Paris Club | ... rt with the help of a series of IMF standby programs, World Bank loans, and | debt rescheduling. Under these programs, the Togolese Government introduce ... |
European Union | ... he Sugar Factory, Rowntree Macintosh, Bournes and Dairygold. Changes in the | sugar subsidy programme resulted in the closure of the Sugar Beet factory ... |
European Union | ... uage of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the | . There are about 2.9 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and ... |
Arab League | The Holy See participates as an observer in AU, | , Council of Europe, OAS, IOM, and in the UN and its agencies FAO, ILO, UN ... |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission | The Royal British Legion with the British Embassy in Paris and the | commemorate the battle on 1 July each year at the Thiepval Memorial to the ... |
EU | ... ember of the European Union. It does, however, have a relationship with the | governed by Protocol 3 to the UK’s Treaty of Accession in 1972. Protocol 3 ... |
Commonwealth Nations | ... cation. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many | , and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, ... |
G-77 | Sri Lanka is member of the IAEA, IBRD, AsDB, C, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-24, | , ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsa ... |
European Union | ... ll as with the US and Canada, the Pacific Union, the African Union, and the | . To achieve these goals, several institutions are foreseen |
European Union | ... remigration difficult, even after Poland and the Czech Republic joined the | |
European Union | Air traffic management in the | is largely undertaken by member states, co-operating through EUROCONTROL, ... |
British Commonwealth | ... exports to Canada. Canada later also forged closer economic links with the | . France and Britain protested and developed new trade partners. Germany d ... |
European Union | ... after the presidential elections in 2006. Opposition groups, the OSCE, the | , and the United States State Department have stated that the vote "fell s ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | Following independence in 1968, Nauru joined the | as a Special Member, and it became a full member in 2000. Nauru was admitt ... |
European Union | ... .S. President Gerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The | is represented by the President of the European Commission and the leader ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... the Kyoto Protocol. The party promotes free trade agreements, most notably | , Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement and now an eff ... |
European Union | ... dress, embraced the Latin alphabet, joined NATO, and is seeking to join the | . Mexico and Russia are also considered to be torn by Huntington. He also ... |
European Union | ... pen skies agreement with the United States, in spite of objections from the | authorities. This gave both countries unrestricted landing rights on each ... |
NATO | ... , and some others work in the new military bases, created primarily for the | , that still occupying large areas of the island. Nevertheless since 1973 ... |
Council of Europe | ... to run in presidential election in Azerbaijan. Nevertheless, the OSCE, the | , and other international organizations, as well as local independent poli ... |
European Free Trade Association | ... und 7% of total population. Of the non-citizen residents, 48,560 were EU or | nationals and 17,426 were Cypriots with privileged status. The majority co ... |
Commonwealth | ... rlementaire de la Francophonie. Jersey wants to become a full member of the | in its own right |
Council of Europe | ... rliament building "for remodeling". Nevertheless, for some time, the EU and | considered these remnants of the old parliament as the legitimate assembly ... |
G7 | ... dt and U.S. President Gerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven ( | ). The European Union is represented by the President of the European Comm ... |
European Union | ... fforts to turn the country into a platform of investment and exports to the | and United States |
European Union | ... (ADB) lending must await the willingness of Togo's traditional donors – the | , principally, but the US also – to resume aid flows. So far, Togo's probl ... |
Arab League | Yemen became a member of the | in 1945 and the United Nations in 1947 |
G7 | Formed in 1989 by the | countries, the FATF is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to devel ... |
Group of Eight | ... ing in neo-imperialism include the World Bank, World Trade Organization and | , and the World Economic Forum. Various "first world" states, notably the ... |
G-77 | ... , AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CTBT, EBRD, ECA, ESCWA, FAO, G-15, G-19, G-24, | , IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, ... |
European Union | ... , which was named Argo. This vessel, with a 50-oar crew made up from all 27 | member countries, sailed from Jason's hometown of Volos to Venice, stoppin ... |
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission | The | (SOPAC) suggests that, while Tuvalu is vulnerable to climate change, envir ... |
Arab League | ... king of more than a hundred states. These were most of the countries of the | , Non-Aligned Movement, and Organization of African Unity. Sadat had also ... |
Commonwealth | In this | nation, the term Rektor is used to refer to the highest administrative off ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... preparing the way. Italy was defeated by a force of the United Kingdom, the | , Free France, Free Belgium, and Ethiopian patriots. On 5 May 1941, Haile ... |
League of Nations | ... he United States of America, in turn to select its delegate to the proposed | . This international body he contrasted with imperialism, not only the imp ... |
League of Nations | ... ith the Treaty of Versailles, the 1920 treaty contained the Covenant of the | , and, as a result, it was not ratified by the United States. The United S ... |
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation | ... nd informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the | , BCIM and the G-20. As of September 2011, all but 23 countries have recog ... |
European Union | Concurrent to this process, the | negotiated an agreement with the United States Government to permit the tr ... |
G-15 | ... DB, AFESD, AL, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CTBT, EBRD, ECA, ESCWA, FAO, | , G-19, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRC ... |
Economic Community of West African States | Togo is one of 16 members of the | (ECOWAS). The ECOWAS development fund is based in Lomé. Togo also is a mem ... |
European Union | Poland joined the | in May 2004. Both President Kwaśniewski and the government were vocal in t ... |
Permanent Joint Board on Defense | ... nsburg, issuing a declaration calling for close cooperation, and formed the | (PJBD) |
Five Power Defence Arrangements | ... tion is also the Integrated Air Defence System (IADS) command centre of the | (FPDA). The airbase stations four RMAF squadrons and hosts a Royal Austral ... |
League of Nations | ... rope to sign the Versailles treaty and to work on gathering support for his | idea. Wilson became the first president to personally deliver a treaty to ... |
Commonwealth | ... the late twentieth century the main source of immigration has been from new | countries such as India and Pakistan. A more recent issue is that an unkno ... |
EU | ... tion period caused the unemployment to be at times as high as 20%. With the | access, the gradual opening of West European labor markets to Polish worke ... |
European Union | ... claims to the islet. Spain's objections were fully supported by almost all | member states, with the exception of France and Portugal (whose government ... |
G7 | ... en 2007 and 2011, China's economic growth rate was equivalent to all of the | countries' growth combined. According to the Global Growth Generators inde ... |
European Union | ... e written in the Latin script and the only official Semitic language of the | |
Commonwealth | ... t notaries public in a dominion or colony. The admission of notaries in the | was governed specifically by the Public Notaries Act 1833 (UK). The provis ... |
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States | The member states of the | (OECS) had originally planned for a common OECS passport by January 1, 200 ... |
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) | ... eficiary of the U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative. The country belongs to the | , which has signed a framework agreement with the United States to promote ... |
European Union | ... s such as the United Kingdom, frowned upon in others such as throughout the | , and lawful if used "proportionately" in others, including Delaware in th ... |
European Union | ... feated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent clashes. The | , the United States, Canada, Israel and Japan classify Hamas as a terroris ... |
Concert of Europe | ... gress of Vienna, he was very influential in establishing the new order, the | , after the overthrow of Napoleon |
Union of South American Nations | In 2008, the | (USAN) was founded, revealing South American ambition of economic integrat ... |
NATO | ... several units of the U.S. armed forces, associated with German units under | . There are five separate U.S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412 ... |
EU | ... es industry in the Cayman Islands. As the Cayman Islands are not subject to | laws, the implementation of the EUSD is by way of bilateral agreements bet ... |
EU | ... the parliament building "for remodeling". Nevertheless, for some time, the | and Council of Europe considered these remnants of the old parliament as t ... |
British Commonwealth | ... s, Vincent Massey, was named in 1927. Canada became an active member of the | , the League of Nations, and the World Court, none of which included the U ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... e 1990s. On January 1, 1994 Canada, Mexico and the United States signed the | , creating the world's largest free trade area. In 2000, Vicente Fox becam ... |
European Union | ... s Party is in principle open to a referendum on Norwegian membership of the | , although only if a majority of the public opinion is seen to favour it b ... |
League of Nations | ... nd controlling resources. They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the | through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, th ... |
French Community | ... was established on 11 December 1958, as a self-governing colony within the | . The name Upper Volta indicated that the country is situated on the upper ... |
G7 | ... nity (which later became the European Union), the United Nations, NATO, the | and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Italy is c ... |
European Union | ... s benefited from preferential access to the European market. In view of the | 's announced phase-out of this preferred access, economic diversification ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... etimes Pacific Community) and is a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, the | and the United Nations. Tuvalu has maintained a mission at the United Nati ... |
NATO | Poland joined | in 1999. Elements of the Polish Armed Forces have since participated in th ... |
European Union | ... centage increase in industrial output compared to 2005 levels out of all 27 | members, with an increase of 6%. Eurostat statistics show that the industr ... |
European Union | ... 009–2010. Additionally, Greece is the 15th largest economy in the 27-member | . In terms of per capita income, Greece is ranked 29th or 33rd in the worl ... |
European Union | Azerbaijan also maintains good relations with the | , in the framework of its Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy (See Azerb ... |
League of Nations | ... Belgian troops conquered the area during the First World War. In 1923, the | mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, encompassing modern-da ... |
G-77 | ACP, AfDB, ECA, ECOWAS, Entente, FAO, FZ, | , IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IM ... |
IHO | ... RD, AsDB, C, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-24, G-77, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, | , ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, NAM, OA ... |
League of Nations | ... ternational order. Tokyo was granted a permanent seat on the Council of the | and the peace treaty confirmed the transfer to Japan of Germany's rights i ... |
NATO | ... ive Party who want to join the EU without any referendum. The party regards | to be a positive basic element of Norway's defense, security and foreign p ... |
European Union | ... d Oxfordshire NUTS-2 region, which was the seventh richest subregion in the | in 2002. As well as the highest GDP per capita outside Inner London, Bucki ... |
Union of African States | ... blic. The draft included a provision to surrender Ghanaian sovereignty to a | . On 19, 23, and 27 April 1960 a presidential election and plebiscite on t ... |
European Union | ... reland has the highest rate of recreational drug use among teenagers in the | |
Commonwealth | The imperial (UK) gallon, defined as , is used in some | countries and was originally based on the volume of 10 pounds of water at ... |
Commonwealth | ... was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and | during the first half of the 20th century. It was the British Army's stand ... |
G-14 | ... us clubs as Juventus, Milan and Internazionale, all founding members of the | , a group representing the largest and most prestigious European football ... |
American Association for the Advancement of Science | He was elected a Fellow of the | (1987), was president of the Rural Sociological Society from 1990 to 1991, ... |
OHADA | ... EAC) and the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa ( | ) |
Economic Cooperation Organization | ... including ABN AMRO, Citibank, and HSBC. Kazakhstan is also a member of the | (ECO) |
Atomium Culture | From 2008 he is the Honorary President of the Permanent Platform of | , an innovative structure composed of some of the most authoritative unive ... |
G20 developing nations | ... and is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations and the | |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... rtance ("special significance"). This includes most of the countries of the | (the former British Empire), including populous countries such as India, P ... |
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | ... ean Parliament, and FG parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the | and Committee of the Regions. Young Fine Gael is a member of the Youth of ... |
G8 | In 2005, the national science academies of the | nations (including the National Academy of Sciences) plus science academie ... |
European Union | ... per in comparison with Western and Russian clinics. Many tourists from USA, | and Russia arrive for dental services, providing a sort of dental tourism |
European Union | ... ls and the multiple opportunities offered by Free Trade Agreements with the | , United States and Turkey. But now China's share rises to 46% on average ... |
European Union | ... bition of economic integration, with plans for political integration in the | style. This was seen by American political commentators as a pivotal momen ... |
ECOWAS | ACP, AfDB, ECA, | , Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, I ... |
Pacific Islands Forum | ... ific Community, or SPC (sometimes Pacific Community) and is a member of the | , the Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations. Tuvalu has maintaine ... |
International Hydrographic Organization | ... northernmost island, are spread out over a distance of 220 km (137 mi). The | (IHO) considers them wholly within the South Pacific Ocean, however. The G ... |
French Union | ... World War II. On 4 September 1947, the colony was revived as a part of the | , with its previous boundaries. On 11 December 1958, it achieved self-gove ... |
European Union | A | scientific commission was asked to report on the incidence of mastitis and ... |
Euro-Mediterranean free trade area | ... orocco and it was seen as a possible first step in the establishment of the | as envisaged in the Barcelona Process. They are also founding members of G ... |
European Union | ... -level governance context, becomes increasingly interesting for scholars of | integration (see Trechsel, 2005 |
European Union | ... arks and digraphs. Maltese is the only Semitic official language within the | |
Arab League | ... nt regretting the incident). Morocco's claims had official support from the | , except for Algeria, which reinstated its recognition of Spanish sovereig ... |
European Union | ... and wheat stocks to subsidize food exports as part of a trade war with the | . Helms heavily opposed cutting food aid to Poland after martial law was d ... |
Arab League | ... celona Process. They are also founding members of GAFTA, a pact made by the | to achieve a complete Arab economic bloc that can compete internationally |
AfDB | ACP, | , ECA, ECOWAS, Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM ... |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | ... he Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). It also is a member of the Commonwealth, the | (SAARC), the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Asian Development Ba ... |
Commonwealth | ... of January the following year, Philip and his wife set out on a tour of the | . On 6 February 1952, when they were in Kenya, Elizabeth's father died and ... |
NATO | ... r of what is now the European Union since 1981 and the eurozone since 2001, | since 1952, and the European Space Agency since 2005. It is also a foundin ... |
Warsaw Pact | ... avic populations with most being Russians. Also former satellite states and | territories also have large minority Slavic populations also being Russian ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... nisation of Islamic Cooperation) and is a member of the United Nations, the | and the G20 developing nations |
European Union | ... Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, | , Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greec ... |
European Community | ... ffairs officials hoped that this agreement would help to broaden Japanese – | political links and raise them above the narrow confines of trade disputes |
Secretariat of the Pacific Community | Tuvalu participates in the work of | , or SPC (sometimes Pacific Community) and is a member of the Pacific Isla ... |
Pole of Freedoms | The 1994 elections also swept media magnate Silvio Berlusconi (leader of " | " coalition) into office as Prime Minister. Berlusconi, however, was force ... |
European Union | ... the tenth member of the European Communities (subsequently subsumed by the | ) on 1 January 1981, ushering in a period of remarkable and sustained econ ... |
Warsaw Pact | ... ch Wałęsa. It was the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a | country. Solidarity reached 9.5 million members before its September 1981 ... |
NATO | ... arby at Camp Guynemer. These facilities were in place from the inception of | until France’s partial withdrawal from NATO in 1967 when the United States ... |
European Union | Regulations enacted recently by the | have applied the rule that 85% of the grapes in the wine must be of the va ... |
European Union | Textiles form a major industry in Morocco. The | is Morocco's top client as regards textile and clothing, with France impor ... |
NATO | JTIDS is also used by other members of | |
Popular Front | ... ities and clubs and banned the sport for its association with the left-wing | government that had governed France before the War. The sport was unbanned ... |
EU | ... red to as "Madeira" or "Madera", although those wines do not conform to the | PDO regulations. In conformance with these EU regulations most countries l ... |
G8 | Martin promoted the expansion of the | into a larger group of twenty nations G20. He also forged a closer relatio ... |
Group of 77 | ... he only developing nation in the Pacific never to have been a member of the | . Palau (which withdrew from membership in 2004) is the only other Pacific ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... an direct dialing became rare. In the United Kingdom and other parts of the | , the equivalent terms are or were "STD", for subscriber trunk dialing, an ... |
European Union | The European Central Bank (ECB) is the institution of the | (EU) that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member sta ... |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility | ... can be identified using databases such as the Encyclopedia of Life and the | |
Commonwealth of Nations | From 1947 to 1956, Pakistan was a dominion in the | , under two monarchs. In 1947, King George VI relinquished the title of Em ... |
Community of Democracies | ... for Reconstruction and Development; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the | ; the International Monetary Fund; and the World Bank |
French Union | Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the | . On 5 August 1960, it attained full independence from France. The first p ... |
OAS | ... Holy See participates as an observer in AU, Arab League, Council of Europe, | , IOM, and in the UN and its agencies FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, UNEP, UNESCO, UN-H ... |
European Union | ... Financial support to Tuvalu is also provided by Japan, South Korea and the | |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation | ... . It also is a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the | (APEC) forum and the Commonwealth of Nations. Brunei hosted the APEC Econo ... |
Closer Economic Relations | ... nomic relations with Australia. Australia and New Zealand are partners in " | " (CER), which allows for free trade in goods and most services. Since 199 ... |
SPC | ESCAP (associate), FZ, ITUC, | , WM |
College of Cardinals | ... lection was linked to the rumoured divisions between rival camps within the | |
British Commonwealth | ... his "Motion of Destiny" to the Assembly, requesting independence within the | "as soon as the necessary constitutional arrangements are made" on 10 July ... |
League of Nations | ... Rotterdam, for the Dutch statistical office. He was also consultant to the | . From 1945 till 1955 he served as the first director of the Netherlands B ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... operation (OIC), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and the | . Brunei hosted the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November 2000. In 20 ... |
Council of Europe | ... on Human Rights in 1974. As president of the Committee of Ministers of the | , he laid the first stone of the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg on 15 May ... |
Council of Europe | ... lth Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the | , CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies; the International Monetary Fun ... |
North American Free Trade Agreement | ... AmeriCorps program, and despite reservations supported the president on the | (NAFTA). On the issue Kennedy cared most about, national health insurance, ... |
American Association for the Advancement of Science | ... The first recorded use of the term is in a 1964 letter by Anne Ewing to the | . After Wheeler's use of the term, it was quickly adopted in general use |
League of Nations | ... and Noxious Gases in Warfare and a resolution adopted against Japan by the | on 14 May 1938, the Imperial Japanese Army frequently used chemical weapon ... |
IHO | ... G-19, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, | , ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO ... |
Caribbean Community | The member states of the | (CARICOM) recently began issuing passports to a common design, featuring t ... |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... 1973, The Bahamas became fully independent, but retained membership in the | . Sir Milo Butler was appointed the first Bahamian governor-general (the r ... |
Commonwealth | In | countries, the Gramophone Company did not use this design on its record la ... |
European Union (EU) | Economics and society depend heavily on efficient roads. In the | 44% of all goods are moved by trucks over roads and 85% of all persons are ... |
Commonwealth | ... e City of London, the Aldermen of the City of London and representatives of | nations—makes a proclamation declaring the accession of the new Sovereign ... |
European Union | ... greements include the Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the | ; the Greater Arab Free Trade Area with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia; as wel ... |
European Union | ... e 21st highest quality of life, Greece has been a member of what is now the | since 1981 and the eurozone since 2001, NATO since 1952, and the European ... |
Caribbean Community | ... tion well north of the Caribbean, Bermuda became an associate member of the | (CARICOM) in 2003 |
NATO | Spain is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( | ). The Armada Española has taken part in many coalition peacekeeping opera ... |
European Economic Community | ... ing position with the United Kingdom in 1973, due to the latter joining the | . Partly as a result, from 1970 to 1990, the relative New Zealand purchasi ... |
CERN | ... illion K (10 13 K) and this does not tend to happen naturally. However, at | , protons are accelerated in the Proton Synchrotron to an energy of 26 GeV ... |
European Union | ... tionally responsible for the defence of Jersey. Jersey is not a part of the | but has a special relationship with it, being treated as part of the Europ ... |
League of Nations | ... ech in the Pells Park Pavilion in favor of U.S. entry into the newly formed | . An excerpt of his speech can be found in the June 26, 1919 edition of th ... |
Arab League | The war was only stopped by an | intervention. The goal of unity was reaffirmed by the northern and souther ... |
European Union | Morocco maintains close relations with the | , especially with the former colonial rulers, France and Spain. On October ... |
European Union | A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The | (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not n ... |
European Union | ... ramme of the European Capital of Culture, which has been established by the | since 1985 |
EC | “In common with other | countries, on 1st January, 1980, Britain adopted the system of measurement ... |
EEC | ... was met with mixed results in the U.S. and the U.K. Other countries of the | agreed to ensure that discriminatory laws would be phased out across the E ... |
International Hydrographic Organization | The | defines the limits of the Strait of Gibraltar as follows |
League of Nations | ... other mandated territories in Micronesia. On March 27, 1933, Japan left the | , but nevertheless continued to manage the islands in the region and in th ... |
European Union | The government in the capital city Kinshasa, the United Nations, the | , and bilateral partners which include Angola, South Africa, and Belgium a ... |
College of Cardinals | ... experiencing diminished influence within the increasingly internationalist | , were figures like Cardinal Karol Wojtyła. Over the days following the co ... |
Commonwealth nations | ... nd around Scout and Guide campfires, primarily in Britain, Ireland and some | |
Commonwealth of Nations | ... as a Commonwealth Realm on 9 December 1961, becoming a republic within the | exactly a year later on 9 December 1962. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika join ... |
NATO | ... to Standing NRF Maritime Group 1 while the Campbeltown was flagship of the | force in the North Atlantic from 1990 to 1991. He then passed the squadron ... |
European Union | Jersey is neither a Member State nor an Associate Member of the | . It does, however, have a relationship with the EU governed by Protocol 3 ... |
G8 | ... t Britain. With a large land area the road density is the lowest of all the | and BRIC countries |
League of Nations | ... n with the more distant centers of power, including France, Britain and the | |
Camphill Movement | ... s education, the Sonnenhof, in Switzerland. In 1940, Karl König founded the | in Scotland. The latter in particular has spread widely, and there are now ... |
OAS | ... IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, NAM, | (observer), OPCW, PCA, SAARC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNU, UPU, WCL, WC ... |