Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Older editions of the CIA World Factbook, going back to 1989, country rankings constructed from CIA data, and additional country information from other sources are available at the Countries of the World website, which was begun in 1996.

Countries marked in dark colors are authoritarian, and most often dictatorships.

Countries that are more red are authoritarian, and most often dictatorships.

Countries choose this kind of economic integration if their economical structures are complementary.

In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.

Excavations are currently underway, and if the so far presented estimates hold true, the site would be the only pre-glacial ( Neanderthal ) site so far discovered in the Nordic Countries, and it is approximately 125, 000 years old.

Countries within the EU are required to adopt the directive in national legislation by early 2013.

The IMU's members are Member Countries and each Member country is represented through an Adhering Organization, which may be its principal academy, a mathematical society, its research council or some other institution or association of institutions, or an appropriate agency of its government.

The Commission for Developing Countries supports research travel of mathematicians based in developing countries as well as mathematics research conferences in the developing world through its Grants Program which is open to mathematicians throughout the developing world, including countries that are not ( yet ) members of the IMU.

Countries are required to update their AIP manuals every 28 days and so provide definitive regulations, procedures and information for each country about airspace and aerodromes.

Countries are increasingly recognizing how severely IC / PBS can affect patients ' lives, by officially recognizing that it can completely impair functioning.

Countries pictured ( clockwise from upper left ) are Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt ( across the Gulf of Aqabah ), Israel, and the disputed West Bank, with Jordan in the center.

In common use are such terms as Lusophone, meaning Portuguese-speaking, and Lusitanic, referring to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries — once Portugal's colonies and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage.

Countries are forced to follow suit, on this view, because should they not foreign investment will dry up, move places with lower " burdens " and leave more people jobless and poor.

* They are both members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

Countries seen as not being sufficiently compliant with such recommendations are subjected to financial sanctions.

Countries with a minority Muslim population are more likely than Muslim-majority countries of the Greater Middle East to use mosques as a way to promote civic participation.

Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet.

Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are ( clockwise, from the north ): Iran, Oman ( exclave of Musandam ), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

Countries such as Belgium and Switzerland that often use charitable fund-raising design stamps that are desirable for collectors.

The twenty-four current beneficiaries of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act ( CBERA ) were potentially eligible to be declared CBTPA Beneficiary Countries.

Countries that previously reached the decision point became eligible for full debt forgiveness once their lending agency confirmed that the countries had continued to maintain the reforms implemented during HIPC status.

Countries that operate large SIFE programmes may host a series of regional competitions to narrow down the number of teams eligible to compete at their national competition.

The country was deemed eligible to participate in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative in 2008.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.

Fort Dodge Animal Health has their vaccines available for multiple European Countries ( vaccination will start in 2008 in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Italy ).

* Association for the Promotion of Independent Disease Control in Developing Countries

Countries that have ratified the Charter, and languages for which the ratification was made:

The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Countries with an aging population, or with a baby boom, experience increasing pre-tax Gini coefficient even if real income distribution for working adults remain constant.

His ministry expanded and he undertook tours of North America and the Low Countries, between which he was imprisoned for over a year.

In September 2009, Haiti met the conditions set out by the IMF and World Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, qualifying it for cancellation of some of its external debt.

In July 2000, Honduras reached its decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative ( HIPC ), qualifying the country for interim multilateral debt relief.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

Since 2011 this has been coordinated by the Commission for Developing Countries ( CDC ).

In 2010 IMU formed the Commission for Developing Countries ( CDC ) which brings together all of the past and current initiatives in support of mathematics and mathematicians in the developing world.

* Financing Instrument for Cooperation with Industrialised and Other High Income Countries and Territories, an instrument of the European Union

The museum participates too in arbitration sessions held via UNESCO's Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin.

These and other movements such as the Philippines 1995 Mining Act led the World Bank to publish a third report ( Assistance for Minerals Sector Development and Reform in Member Countries ) which endorsed mandatory environment impact assessments and attention to the locals.

When Charles's illegitimate son Monmouth assembled an invasion force at Amsterdam, and sailed for Britain, William informed James of Monmouth's departure, and ordered English regiments in the Low Countries to return to Britain.

He had no amorous feelings toward Mary and sought the marriage for its political and strategic gains ; Philip's aide Ruy Gómez de Silva wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, " the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries.