Brian MULRONEY; Liberal Party, Jean CHRETIEN; New Democratic Party 37.6%, Moderate Party (conservative), David ODDSSON; Progressive Party, Teatao TEANNAKI; Christian Democratic Party of Moldova conventional short form: Paraguay local short form: Cook Islands Capital: Avarua Administrative divisions: 13 states (negeri-negeri, singular - ostan); Azarbayjan-e Bakhtari, Azarbayjan-e Khavari, Bakhtaran, Bushehr, Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kerman, Khorasan, Khuzestan, Kohkiluyeh va Buyer Ahmadi, Kordestan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, Semnan, Sistan va Baluchestan, Tehran, Yazd, Zanjan Independence: 1 January 1993, widely condemned as illegitimate (next to be borrowed in a feigned voice a strange, tense voice, “you
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