of Chambers of Commerce and
Commodity Exchanges or TOBB [M. Rifat HISARCIKLIOGLU]

Turkmenistan
NA

Turks and Caicos Islands
NA

Tuvalu
none

Uganda
Popular Resistance Against a Life President or PRALP

Ukraine
NA

United Arab Emirates
NA

United Kingdom
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Confederation of
British Industry; National Farmers' Union; Trades Union Congress

United States
NA

Uruguay
Agrupacion UTE (powerful state worker's union), Rural
Association of Uruguay (rancher's association), Uruguayan
Construction League, Chamber of Uruguayan Industries (manufacturer's
association), Chemist and Pharmaceutical Association (professional
organization), Architect's Society of Uruguay (professional
organization), the Catholic Church, students

Uzbekistan
Agrarian and Entrepreneurs' Party [Marat ZAHIDOV]; Birlik
(Unity) Movement [Abdurakhim POLAT, chairman]; Erk (Freedom)
Democratic Party [Muhammad SOLIH, chairman] was banned 9 December
1992; Ezgulik Human Rights Society [Vasilia INOYATOVA]; Free
Farmers' Party or Ozod Dehqonlar [Nigara KHIDOYATOVA]; Human Rights
Society of Uzbekistan [Tolib YAKUBOV, chairman]; Independent Human
Rights Society of Uzbekistan [Mikhail ARDZINOV, chairman]; Mazlum
[leader NA]

Vanuatu
NA

Venezuela
FEDECAMARAS, a conservative business group; VECINOS
groups; Venezuelan Confederation of Workers or CTV (labor
organization dominated by the Democratic Action)

Vietnam
none

Virgin Islands
NA

Wallis and Futuna
NA

Western Sahara
none

Yemen
NA

Zambia
NA

Zimbabwe
National Constitutional Assembly or NCA [Lovemore MADHUKU];
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition [Brian KAGORO]; Zimbabwe Congress of
Trade Unions or ZCTU [Lovemore MATOMBO]

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@2116 Economy - overview

Afghanistan
Afghanistan's economic outlook has improved
significantly over the past two years because of the infusion of
over $2 billion in international assistance, dramatic improvements
in agricultural production, and the end of a four-year drought in
most of the country. However, Afghanistan remains extremely poor,
landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid, farming, and trade
with neighboring countries. It will probably take the remainder of
the decade and continuing