Uzbekistan 2001
Yearbook 2001 Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan suffered severe drought for the second year in a row, and the United Nations warned in July that over half a million people in the northwestern part of the country...
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Uruguay 2001
Yearbook 2001 Uruguay. At the beginning of the year, the majority of Congress gave President Jorge Batlle the go-ahead to proceed with a major privatization program that includes the pension insurance system as well...
United States 2001
Yearbook 2001 USA. The all-overshadowing event during the year was the September 11 terror attack, when suicide pilots crashed two hijacked passenger planes against the World Trade Center’s two skyscrapers in New York and...
United Kingdom 2001
Yearbook 2001 UK. A foot-and-mouth disease epizooty broke out in February when infected animals were found in a swing yard in Essex, southern England. In an attempt to stop the spread of the virus...
United Arab Emirates 2001
Yearbook 2001 United Arab Emirates. At the time of the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, along with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, were alone in having diplomatic relations...
Ukraine 2001
Yearbook 2001 Ukraine. The charges against President Leonid Kuchma for planning the assassination of regime-critical journalist Georgij Gongadze in the fall of 2000 grew into a political scandal. At the beginning of the year,...
Uganda 2001
Yearbook 2001 Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected with almost 70% of the vote in the March presidential election. The partyless parliamentary elections in June also became a big victory for the president’s sympathizers...
Tuvalu 2001
Yearbook 2001 Tuvalu. In a closed vote among Parliament’s twelve members, former Interior Minister Faimalaga Luka was appointed new prime minister in February. He took over after Ionatana Ionatana, who passed away in December...
Turkmenistan 2001
Yearbook 2001 Turkmenistan. At the beginning of the year, Turkmenistan criticized the negative attitude of the international community to Afghanistan, saying that the fear of Islamic fundamentalism was excessive. Radical Islamist groups had hitherto...
Turkey 2001
Yearbook 2001 Turkey. The year was marked by Turkey’s difficult economic crisis. The stock index collapsed in February after President Ahmet Necdet Sezer accused Prime Minister B邦lent Ecevit of protecting three corruption-suspected ministers in...