Turkmenistan 1996
Yearbook 1996 Turkmenistan. Since 1993, access to gas, electricity and water has been free in the country, and in 1996 access to flour and bread was also free. Turkmenistan has…
Yearbook 1996 Turkmenistan. Since 1993, access to gas, electricity and water has been free in the country, and in 1996 access to flour and bread was also free. Turkmenistan has…
Yearbook 1996 Turkey. A long government crisis was resolved – temporarily – at the end of February when the Fosterland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) and the Right Road Party (Doğru…
Yearbook 1996 Tunisia. Tunisia’s attempts to defend itself against radical influence from neighboring Algeria and Libya have restricted the activities of its own opposition to the extent that the multi-party…
Yearbook 1996 Trinidad and Tobago. This year’s budget contained some tax relief, and the sales tax was removed from 12 basic commodities. Economic growth during the year was estimated at…
Yearbook 1996 Tonga. Parliamentary elections were held January 24-25. Nine noble and nine noble members were appointed, the former of the country’s 33 noble families, the latter in general elections.…
Yearbook 1996 Togo. A number of filling elections meant that Rassemblement du peuple togolais (RPT, the Togolese People’s Collection) gained its own majority in the National Assembly. With 43 out…
Yearbook 1996 Thailand. After months of wear and tear within the just over a year-old seven-party government, Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-Archa resigned in September and announced new elections. The government…
Yearbook 1996 Tanzania. The new President Benjamin Mkapa himself is considered impeccably honest, but the government is still troubled by the corruption suspicions that have dragged Tanzania into disrepute. Finance…
Yearbook 1996 Tajikistan. Both strife and the peace effort characterized the force measurement between President Imomali Rachmonov’s Moscow-backed regime and the opposition, a fragile alliance of Muslim and democratic forces…
Yearbook 1996 Taiwan. Chinese military maneuvers shortly before Taiwan’s first free presidential election March 23 was close to triggering an international crisis. The exercises, begun in 1995, were escalated during…