V]; People's Democratic Party or
NDP (formerly Communist Party) [Abdulkhafiz JALOLOV, first
secretary]; Self-Sacrificers Party or Fidokorlar National Democratic
Party [Ahtam TURSUNOV, first secretary]

Vanuatu:
Melanesian Progressive Party or MPP [Barak SOPE]; National
United Party or NUP [Willie TITONGOA]; Union of Moderate Parties or
UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanuaaku Party (Our Land Party) or VP [Edward
NATAPEI]; Vanuatu Republican Party [Maxime Carlot KORMAN]

Venezuela:
Brave Peoples Alliance or ABP [leader NA]; Democratic
Action or AD [Henry RAMOS Allup]; Fifth Republic Movement or MVR
[leader Luis MIQUILENA]; Homeland for All or PPT [Pablo MEDINA];
Justice First [leader NA]; Movement Toward Socialism or MAS [Felipe
MUJICA]; National Convergence or Convergencia [Dr. Rafael CALDERA
Rodriguez]; Radical Cause or La Causa R [Andres VELASQUEZ]; Social
Christian Party or COPEI [Jose CURIEL]; Venezuela Project or PV
[Henrique SALAS Ronier]

Vietnam:
only party - Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Le Kha
PHIEU, general secretary]

Virgin Islands:
Democratic Party [Arturo WATLINGTON]; Independent
Citizens' Movement or ICM [Usie RICHON]; Republican Party [Gary
SCROUVE]

Wallis and Futuna:
Lua Kae Tahi (Giscardians) [leader NA]; Mouvement
des Radicaux de Gauche or MRG [leader NA]; Rally for the Republic or
RPR [Clovis LOGOLOGOFOLAU]; Taumu'a Lelei [Soane Muni UHILA]; Union
Populaire Locale or UPL [Falakiko GATA]; Union Pour la Democratie
Francaise or UDF [leader NA]

Yemen:
there are over 12 political parties active in Yemen, some of
the more prominent are: General People's Congress or GPC [President
Ali Abdallah SALIH]; Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah [Shaykh
Abdallah bin Husayn al-AHMAR]; National Arab Socialist Baath Party
[Dr. Qassim SALAAM]; Nasserite Unionist Party [Abdel Malik
al-MAKHLAFI]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]

note: President SALIH's General People's Congress or GPC won a
landslide victory in the April 1997 legislative election and no
longer governs in coalition with Shaykh Abdallah bin Husayn
al-AHMAR's Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah - the two parties had
been in coalition since the end of the civil war in 1994; the YSP, a
loyal opposition party, boycotted the April 1997 legislative
election, but announced that it would participate in Yemen's first
local elections to be held in February 2001; these