* 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.

Brazil's political, business, and military ventures are complemented by the country's trade policy.

Since the Fall of Communism, the country's political leadership decided to pursue a pro-NATO policy, thus reducing military personnel and weaponry.

The Dutch, however, who clung to their troops for their country's protection, were against any adventurous military operation as far south as the Danube and would never willingly permit any major weakening of the forces in the Spanish Netherlands.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, it is a war crime to transfer, directly or indirectly, the civilian population of a country power onto land under that country's military occupation.

The Afghan monarchs were eager to develop the stature of government and the country's military capability, and so attempted to raise money by the imposition of state monopolies on the sale of commodoties and high taxes.

It could be perhaps said that the country's policy of neutrality has been moderated to " military non-alignment " with an emphasis on maintaining a competent independent defence.

Intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998 ; the civil war led to a 28 % drop in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999.

The head of state will, regardless of actual authority, perform ceremonial duties related to the country's armed forces, and will sometimes appear in military uniform for these purposes ; particularly in monarchies where also the monarch's consort and other members of a royal family may also appear in military garb.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

After the result was announced, elements of the Indonesian military and its militia retaliated by killing approximately 2, 000 East Timorese, displacing two-thirds of the population, raping hundreds of women and girls, and destroying much of the country's infrastructure.

* 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

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" However, under the country's militia system, professional soldiers constitute about 5 percent of military personnel.

In a speech endorsing Kim Jong-il as NDC chairman, Kim Yong-nam made it clear that chairman of the NDC is the highest position in the country, in charge of all matters regarding the country's politics, economy, and military.

* 2000 – The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, until he was deposed by General Zia-ul-Haq, who became the country's third military president.

As the country's head of state, in most countries the president is entitled to certain perquisites, and may have a prestigious residence ; often a lavish mansion or palace, sometimes more than one ( e. g. summer and winter residence, country retreat ) – for symbols of office, such as an official uniform, decorations, a presidential seal, coat of arms, flag and other visible accessories ; military honours such as gun salutes, Ruffles and flourishes, and a presidential guard.

San Marino's hope to escape further involvement was shattered on 27 July 1944 when Major Gunther, commander of the German forces in Forlì, delivered a letter from German headquarters in Ferrara to San Marino's government declaring that the country's sovereignty could not be respected if, in view of military requirements, the necessity of transit of troops and vehicles arose.

These are seen as protecting the value of the country's financial assets as well as providing political and military support for the Saudi government.

Under the country's militia system, professional soldiers constitute about 5 percent of military personnel ; the rest are male citizen conscripts 19 to 34 ( in some cases up to 50 ) years old.

The military government, with support of the US, tightened its control over the country's politics, while intellectuals and leftist students strongly opposed the junta.

Total military expenditures during the fiscal year of 2005 totaled 1. 6 % of the country's GDP.

Shortly afterwards, his son Faure Gnassingbé was named by Togo's military as the country's leader, raising numerous eyebrows.

The Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in Khrushchev publicly agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba, while Kennedy secretly agreed to remove his country's missiles from Turkey.

Each country's marks are agreed between that country's leader and deputy leader and coordinators provided by the host country ( the leader of the team whose country submitted the problem in the case of the marks of the host country ), subject to the decisions of the chief coordinator and ultimately a jury if any disputes cannot be resolved.

Neither Baldwin nor Melisende were pleased with the decision, as Baldwin wanted to rule the entire kingdom and realized it would divide the country's resources, but in order to prevent a civil war Melisende agreed to the compromise.

In July 2010, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme agreed that diamonds from the country's disputed Marange Diamond Fields could be sold on the international market, after a report from the Scheme's monitor a month earlier described diamonds mined from the fields as conflict-free.

As a compromise, Aquino agreed to run under Laurel's machinery, the United Nationalist Democratic Organization ( UNIDO ), then the country's largest opposition party.

At one stage the two men, accompanied only by an interpreter, agreed in principle to reduce each country's nuclear arsenal by 50 percent.

As early as 1960 African nationalist political organizations in Rhodesia agreed that the country's name should be " Zimbabwe " and used that name as part of the titles of their organizations.

It was agreed in 1910 that domestic matters would be looked after by the South African government but that the country's external affairs would still remain British-controlled.

In 1987, when Pope John Paul II visited Chile, Pinochet availed of the visit that the Pope regularly paid to a country's head of state to get the Pope to appear with him at a balcony of the presidential palace, although this was not in the agreed programme.

Its discriminatory provisions, which reserved the office of Prime Minister and a built-in majority in the House of Representatives for indigenous Fijians ( although they were at that time a minority of the population ) proved very unpopular with the Indo-Fijian community, which comprised almost half the country's population, and in the mid 1990s the government agreed that it should be rewritten.

None of these acts were recognised internationally, and under the Lancaster House Agreement the country's government agreed to revert to colonial status in 1979 in order to facilitate the introduction of majority rule and the creation of the independent state of Zimbabwe in 1980.

Although Muslims agreed on the faith's basic tenets, the country's various social groups and classes applied Islam differently in their daily lives.

Fitzwilliam wrote to Laurence on 22 February 1797 that he did not wish for a change in government lest it " lead to a change in the constitution " but agreed that a " reform in the abuses of executive government " was needed and that Fox would carry on the war " for the same reason the government, and peace would be made by him more to advantage, because, made by him, there would be virtually a saving of the country's honour — made by Mr Pitt, the country is beat into it ' made by Mr Fox it is a measure of choice ".

The election was the country's first after 16 years of military rule ; something which had been agreed to during US negotiations that led to the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty in 1977 ( Ardito Barletta was among the negotiators for Panama ).

PT agreed to acquire 22. 4 % of Telemar Norte Leste ( Oi ), the country's largest telecommunications firm, in July 2010.

In February 2008, BC Partners Ltd. agreed to buy Migros Turk TAS, Turkey's largest supermarket chain, for about $ 3. 2 billion in the country's biggest-ever leveraged buyout, gaining 961 stores in Turkey and nearby countries through the takeover.

The 1st Naval District is located at the country's main naval base in Rio de Janeiro ; the 2nd Naval District is in Salvador ; the 3rd Naval District is located in Natal ; the 4th Naval District is located in Belém ; and the 5th Naval District is located in Porto Alegre.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

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The trade balance is identical to the difference between a country's output and its domestic demand ( the difference between what goods a country produces and how many goods it buys from abroad ; this does not include money re-spent on foreign stock, nor does it factor in the concept of importing goods to produce for the domestic market ).

; most of the country's imports pass through the port of Douala, before being transported by truck to C. A. R ..

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act stated that some abusive class actions harmed class members with legitimate claims and defendants that have acted responsibly ; adversely affected interstate commerce ; and undermined public respect for the country's judicial system.

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

The Constitution of Canada ( La Constitution du Canada in French ) is the supreme law in Canada ; the country's constitution is an amalgamation of codified acts and uncodified traditions and conventions.

( DIN ; in English, the German Institute for Standardization ) is the German national organization for standardization and is that country's ISO member body.

As far as British interests were concerned, Abdur Rahman answered their prayers: a forceful, intelligent leader capable of welding his divided people into a state ; and he was willing to accept limitations to his power imposed by British control of his country's foreign affairs and the British buffer state policy.

The Macias regime was characterized by abandonment of all government functions except internal security, which was accomplished by terror ; this led to the death or exile of up to one-third of the country's population.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

Kyoto's character was defined by the Imperial Court, the court nobles, its Buddhist temples and its history ; Osaka was the country's commercial center, dominated by the chōnin ( merchant class ).

He argued that the country could not be taxed higher ; that tax exemptions for the nobility and clergy must be reduced ; and proposed that borrowing more money would solve the country's fiscal shortages.

Gdańsk ( or ; ; Kashubian: Gduńsk, ) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the center of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.