Bureau Of South And Central Asian Affairs United States Division Of State
At the extraordinary session on March 8, the National Assembly passed the bill to revise the law, which sets the number of seats allotted for regional constituencies at 224 and that of seats for national constituencies at 75 for a total of 299. Quite a few nations in the Oceania area are nonetheless suffering from financial troubles which have arisen from sluggish costs of principal items. In Australia and New Zealand, the ruling Labor Parties have won once again general elections and are vigorously pushing forward the industry-oriented financial policies. In the northwest, South Asia borders Afghanistan which has been...