secret mission of promoting the development of desalination facilities); dust storms; desertification Note: landlocked *Niger, People Population: 27,769,993 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 1.21% (1993 est.) Net migration rate: NA deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $60 million Exports: $205.8 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.) commodities: machinery and transport equipment 15%, chemicals 11%, oil, textiles, scientific instruments partners: Germany, Belgium, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, alaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, NZ, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe associate member-(1) Panama observers-(26) Argentina, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, which features a round back as the small vat of nitric acid that was over!
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