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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS

Scottish Executive

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library minutes and details of the date and venue of meetings held with Scottish Executive (a) Ministers and (b) officials to discuss Scottish Executive participation in UK delegations to Council of Ministers meetings; how many times Scottish Executive Ministers have sought to lead UK delegations to EU Council of Ministers meetings; how often Scottish Ministers have led UK delegations to Council of Ministers meetings when other UK Ministers have been part of the delegation; if he will make it his policy for Scottish Executive Ministers to be lead UK Ministers at Council of Ministers meetings where the matters are largely the responsibility of Scottish Parliament; and if he will make a statement. [6952]

Peter Hain: The devolved Administrations have an important interest in European policy matters in relation to devolved matters, and their Ministers and officials have an important role to play in relevant Council meetings. Decisions on attendance are taken by the lead UK Minister on a case-by-case basis.

As yet there have been no occasions when Scottish Executive Ministers have led UK delegations when UK Ministers have been part of the delegation, but this could well be the case if appropriate in the future.

Women's Rights (Palestine)

Ms Oona King: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the Palestinian Administration about human rights abuses relating to women. [8070]

Mr. Bradshaw: We regularly raise human rights issues with the Palestinian Authority and have an active dialogue with Palestinian NGOs about human rights matters.

We funded women's rights projects worth £31,300 in financial year 2000–01.

The UK's main development programme also supports women in development projects such as providing women's training programmes and creating work opportunities and a gender law and development masters programme at the Bir Zeit University in Gaza.

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Iraqi Oil

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries have indicated (a) support for (b) opposition to the UK proposal to alter the interval between the price fixing of Iraqi oil from 30 days to 10 days; and if he will make a statement. [9122]

Mr. Bradshaw: Russia alone of the P5 has so far been unable to support the principle of the UK's initiative to seek fair market value for Iraqi oil exports (in line with the UN's commitment to do so), by reviewing the price set for Iraqi oil against the oil's market value every 15, instead of 30, days.

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if his proposal to the United Nations to alter the interval between the price fixing of Iraqi oil from 30 days to 10 days would have (a) positive or (b) negative economic and social consequences in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. [9123]

Mr. Bradshaw: The UK's initiative, to review the price of Iraqi oil more frequently (every 15 instead of 30 days) in order better to match its actual market value, is maximising the revenue available to the "oil for food" humanitarian programme which benefits the Iraqi people. It also limits the opportunity for the Iraqi regime to obtain funds illegally for itself. We have proposed that the UN Sanctions Committee formally adopts this procedure to meet its commitment to obtain fair market value for Iraqi oil exports.

Fundamentalist Paramilitary Groups

Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what efforts he is making to establish the number of UK citizens involved with fundamentalist paramilitary groups in (a) Afghanistan, (b) Kashmir, (c) Pakistan, (d) Chechnya, (e) Lebanon and (f) Palestinian Authority territories; and if he will make a statement. [8656]

Mr. Bradshaw: I can assure my hon. Friend that HMG are determined that this country should not be used as a base for supporting terrorism overseas, in any way. The Terrorism Act 2000 (which entered into force in February 2001) is designed to help the UK police and courts take effective action against those who seek to plan, carry out or support terrorism from or in the UK.

Natural Disasters

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which Department is responsible for making applications for aid from the budget of the EU for natural disasters in the UK. [8765]

Peter Hain: Decisions to seek financing from the European Union are taken by Departments on an individual basis.

Colonel Gaddafi

Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the Prime Minister

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of St. Kitts and Nevis sought advice from the British Government on his Government's proposed trip to Libya to meet Colonel Gaddafi. [9101]

Mr. Bradshaw: No.

Entry Clearance

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for each quarter that an appeal has been available against a refusal of a visa or entry clearance to visit the United Kingdom, how many applications were made for a visa or entry clearance to visit the United Kingdom; of these how many were refused; of these refusals, how many were appealed; and of these appeals, how many succeeded, broken down in each category by (a) the country from which the application was made, (b) the gender of the applicant and (c) the age of the applicant (0–10, 11–20, 21–30 and 31 and above). [8730]

Mr. Bradshaw: We record details of appeals received only in respect of family visit applications. Details are given in the table of the number of appeals received between October 2000, when the right of appeal was reintroduced for family visit visa refusals, and September 2001 for the largest 114 posts.

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The number of applications received and refused between October 2000 and September 2001 are as follows. The figures are based on monthly statistical reports received from the 114 largest posts. The remaining posts submit information on an annual basis, which is not broken down into months. To answer this question for all 165 posts we would have to ask those additional posts to extract the information requested. This could be done only at disproportionate cost.

We do not record the outcome of appeals, but the Lord Chancellor's Department has provided the following information:

	Received	Appeal allowed
October to December 2000	139	22
January to March 2001	540	156
April to June 2001	1,142	422
July to September 2001	1,655	890

We do not record the gender or the age of the applicant. To ask posts to provide this information for statistical purposes now would require them to carry out a manual search of their records. This too could be done only at disproportionate cost.

Applications received, refused and family visit applications received

	October to December 2000			January to March 2001
	Applications received	Applications refused	FVA received	Applications received	Applications refused	FVA received
Abidjan	763	53	0	561	93	0
Abu Dhabi	2,973	52	0	3,112	48	1
Abuja	4,474	561	2	3,734	622	0
Accra	12,314	1,899	10	8,978	3,303	58
Addis Ababa	771	117	0	1,149	193	1
Algiers	—	—	—	850	—	—
Almaty	1,213	69	0	939	51	0
Amman	1,940	37	0	2,225	55	0
Amsterdam	2,268	25	0	1,708	46	2
Ankara	969	14	0	—	14	0
Bahrain	1,319	15	2	2,013	5	0
Baku	691	37	0	535	21	0
Bandar Seri Begawan	197	1	0	—	—	0
Bangkok	5,900	548	0	8,766	521	9
Banjul	1,244	140	0	1,177	159	0
Beirut	1,760	13	0	1,512	19	1
Belgrade	2,727	47	0	2,418	40	1
Bogota	3,890	486	0	3,360	384	3
Bombay	11,353	895	9	15,925	882	39
Bratislava	4,376	129	0	2,870	162	0
Brussels	960	12	1	903	11	0
Bucharest	5,415	350	1	5,059	414	4
Budapest	330	26	0	300	22	0
Cairo	5,940	205	1	5,216	251	3
Calcutta	1,242	30	0	1,713	21	1
Canberra	6,114	9	0	11,943	14	0
Casablanca	1,490	89	1	1,405	52	1
Chicago	1,148	3	0	2,414	2	0
Colombo	4,679	905	1	4,909	1,293	13
Copenhagen	751	14	0	600	22	0
Dakar	—	—	—	382	47	1
Damascus	1,370	160	0	1,561	129	6
Dar Es Salaam	1,805	350	2	1,866	388	2
Dhaka	5,415	1,215	12	5,221	1,749	39
Doha	1,069	42	0	1,413	50	1
Dubai	4,174	257	2	5,657	127	4
Dublin	1,413	9	0	1,361	9	1
Dusseldorf	6,157	39	0	5,405	39	0
Ekaterinburg	476	42	0	521	30	0
Geneva	2,197	83	1	1,551	32	0
Georgetown	358	38	1	339	26	1
Guangzhou	2,506	555	4	2,423	1,312	8
Hanoi	469	51	0	375	36	0
Harare	484	81	0	762	121	0
Havana	426	40	0	416	39	0
Hong Kong	1,027	58	0	1,179	56	1
Islamabad	14,085	3,046	35	16,090	5,203	169
Istanbul	15,974	524	6	769	744	13
Jakarta	5,354	73	1	2,121	69	2
Jeddah	2,409	70	0	3,143	88	0
Jerusalem	386	5	0	323	9	0
Kampala	3,015	770	3	2,865	508	5
Karachi	7,251	1,001	13	7,122	1,725	36
Kathmandu	1,099	295	0	1,802	526	2
Khartoum	672	172	2	674	133	2
Kiev	5,491	747	0	5,756	1,151	4
Kingston	744	115	1	748	66	0
Kuala Lumpur	638	71	0	543	74	2
Kuwait	3,730	162	2	4,693	112	1
Lagos	13,620	2,545	60	14,054	1,938	101
Lahore(1)	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lima	844	26	1	805	18	1
Los Angeles	4,998	13	0	4,436	15	0
Luanda	402	36	0	389	17	0
Lusaka	1,359	102	0	1,043	102	4
Madras	5,770	269	3	8,716	335	5
Madrid	1,404	7	0	13,171	7	0
Manila	5,937	203	0	7,671	439	28
Mexico City	—	—	—	127	1	0
Minsk	1,164	43	0	1,137	46	0
Moscow	14,467	488	0	14,484	452	2
Muscat	1,374	20	1	1,468	33	0
Nairobi	3,904	386	2	4,016	522	8
New Delhi	11,464	1,971	23	13,811	1,298	62
New York	7,822	31	0	7,296	43	1
Nicosia	1,131	30	0	937	32	1
Oslo	756	5	0	658	1	0
Ottawa	3,899	18	0	3,854	26	0
Paris	5,478	16	0	4,801	13	0
Peking	9,098	1,102	1	8,314	—	4
Port Louis	1,811	112	4	1,730	94	2
Port of Spain	397	32	0	409	30	0
Prague	659	3	0	517	2	0
Pretoria	4,826	532	0	6,801	430	1
Quito	446	20	0	569	28	0
Riga	374	34	0	435	19	0
Riyadh	3,481	100	1	4,048	65	4
Rome	1,832	35	0	1,418	19	0
Sana'a	717	113	0	815	117	0
Santo Domingo	179	11	—	178	10	0
Sarajevo	703	10	0	611	3	0
Shanghai	2,634	136	0	2,551	73	5
Singapore	1,185	16	0	1,171	20	0
Skopje(2)	—	—	—	649	124	—
Sofia	4,884	311	2	5,083	281	1
St. Petersburg	2,684	87	0	2,249	143	0
Sto Domingo	—	—	0	—	—	2
Stockholm	1,143	19	0	901	12	0
Taipei	5,766	—	0	6,315	230	0
Tashkent	514	36	0	394	57	0
Tbilisi	489	143	0	555	33	0
Tehran	4,079	199	1	5,181	183	8
Tel Aviv	300	39	0	2,758	109	—
Tirana	443	62	0	340	53	1
Tokyo	989	37	0	1,586	387	0
Tripoli	—	—	—	—	—	1
Tunis	1,617	289	3	1,664	227	9
Valletta	269	8	0	1,033	—	—
Vienna	716	10	0	667	9	0
Warsaw	355	17	0	314	25	0
Washington	3,253	0	0	2,538	3	0
Wellington	42	18	0	4,043	7	0
Yaounde	408	109	0	436	56	1
Zagreb	3,263	111	0	2,525	118	4
	324,754	26,812	215	345,047	31,533	703

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Applications received, refused and family visit applications received

	April to June 2001			August to September 2001
	Applications received	Applications refused	FVA received	Applications received	Applications refused	FVA received
Abidjan	953	60	0	907	121	0
Abu Dhabi	7,484	212	5	7,961	278	10
Abuja	5,973	571	20	8,498	1,035	18
Accra	18,690	4,607	103	18,555	5,194	70
Addis Ababa	1,197	177	3	1,748	291	5
Algiers	942	—	—	1,333	—	—
Almaty	1,333	47	0	1,119	76	0
Amman	2,748	29	0	3,847	76	1
Amsterdam	2,323	14	2	2,507	41	3
Ankara	—	19	0	1,173	12	0
Bahrain	3,715	15	1	5,353	30	0
Baku	764	30	0	851	7	0
Bandar Seri Begawan	—	—	0	—	—	0
Bangkok	8,855	487	23	7,698	648	16
Banjul	1,937	199	5	2,626	328	5
Beirut	2,148	11	0	2,420	22	0
Belgrade	3,596	45	2	3,348	43	1
Bogota	6,744	373	1	4,819	453	2
Bombay	30,135	1,599	136	20,500	1,600	126
Bratislava	6,397	116	0	6,049	151	0
Brussels	986	7	0	1,043	12	0
Bucharest	7,887	370	3	8,702	440	0
Budapest	415	15	0	422	21	0
Cairo	9,537	225	0	10,389	366	2
Calcutta	4,311	43	1	2,753	57	4
Canberra	9,912	13	0	7,885	8	0
Casablanca	1,824	38	0	2,403	75	2
Chicago	3,583	6	0	2,302	7	0
Colombo	6,342	795	28	7,152	1,385	40
Copenhagen	960	18	0	687	33	2
Dakar	129	11	0	—	—	0
Damascus	1,979	179	0	1,413	227	0
Dar Es Salaam	2,628	277	12	2,041	264	13
Dhaka	7,523	949	69	9,134	1,398	91
Doha	3,809	72	0	4,764	104	3
Dubai	11,739	72	6	10,034	104	12
Dublin	1,682	35	1	1,580	46	0
Dusseldorf	6,676	33	0	5,690	45	0
Ekaterinburg	1,257	21	0	923	27	0
Geneva	2,427	26	0	2,479	35	1
Georgetown	699	40	4	620	54	3
Guangzhou	5,336	1,234	12	6,143	396	11
Hanoi	619	48	0	246	22	0
Harare	564	73	0	—	—	0
Havana	573	31	0	481	36	0
Hong Kong	1,961	50	2	1,561	45	2
Islamabad	30,872	5,910	538	20,033	4,153	449
Istanbul	1,131	519	11	13,430	701	23
Jakarta	5,382	73	3	2,590	80	0
Jeddah	8,324	77	0	5,866	71	5
Jerusalem	643	9	0	712	14	0
Kampala	3,859	318	3	3,485	349	5
Karachi	16,964	2,933	29	13,411	2,554	85
Kathmandu	1,561	413	0	2,036	818	20
Khartoum	1,745	134	11	1,230	136	5
Kiev	8,493	916	3	6,226	1,070	4
Kingston	1,194	109	1	1,264	122	3
Kuala Lumpur	716	95	1	844	111	1
Kuwait	10,612	135	1	14,345	196	2
Lagos	23,197	2,261	144	26,056	2,635	174
Lahore(3)	—	—	—	1,345	271	2
Lima	1,087	26	0	1,137	24	0
Los Angeles	6,767	5	0	5,364	5	0
Luanda	499	14	0	813	30	0
Lusaka	1,433	65	6	1,218	78	1
Madras	12,272	312	7	8,150	336	6
Madrid	13,207	3	0	1,418	2	0
Manila	7,830	426	60	5,841	344	46
Mexico City	178	0	1	181	0	0
Minsk	2,968	41	0	3,045	80	0
Moscow	22,941	593	5	16,894	619	8
Muscat	4,258	41	3	3,209	40	5
Nairobi	6,582	469	7	6,872	731	17
New Delhi	28,328	1,672	167	21,719	1,525	156
New York	10,263	31	0	8,403	20	0
Nicosia	1,285	34	1	2,053	38	7
Oslo	1,063	1	1	898	2	0
Ottawa	5,582	33	0	5,192	24	1
Paris	6,946	8	0	7,689	11	1
Peking	12,568	—	2	19,175	2,237	0
Port Louis	3,823	100	7	3,050	200	9
Port of Spain	541	40	0	662	39	0
Prague	670	3	0	755	3	0
Pretoria	5,756	386	0	4,526	406	0
Quito	821	20	0	865	19	1
Riga	553	41	0	303	18	1
Riyadh	10,796	114	7	9,836	129	7
Rome	2,097	36	0	3,661	24	1
Sana'a	1,322	104	11	1,448	70	5
Santo Domingo	547	6	0	532	22	0
Sarajevo	780	6	0	684	5	0
Shanghai	4,889	61	0	6,660	702	0
Singapore	1,695	11	0	1,331	19	0
Skopje(4)	1,205	94	—	839	139	—
Sofia	6,823	555	0	5,726	899	0
St. Petersburg	3,663	129	0	3,010	134	0
Sto Domingo	—	—	0	—	—	14
Stockholm	1,333	8	0	1,119	13	0
Taipei	12,297	429	0	12,282	0	0
Tashkent	599	49	0	885	72	0
Tbilisi	530	30	0	790	33	0
Tehran	6,583	69	9	7,198	167	20
Tel Aviv	4,766	175	—	6,552	394	—
Tirana	704	40	0	853	103	0
Tokyo	1,435	242	1	1,299	81	0
Tripoli	—	—	7	—	—	0
Tunis	1,875	196	15	3,042	166	21
Valletta	1,560	—	—	—	—	—
Vienna	745	11	0	813	7	0
Warsaw	448	19	0	545	24	0
Washington	3,271	0	1	3,030	0	0
Wellington	4,240	10	0	2,026	7	0
Yaounde	710	70	3	476	44	4
Zagreb	3,945	19	1	4,346	32	0
	553,064	34,041	1,506	513,447	38,921	1,552

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Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for each year from 1990 to 2000, how many applications were made for a visa or entry clearance to visit the United Kingdom of these, how many were repeat applications; how many applications for a visa or entry clearance to visit the United Kingdom were refused; and of these, how many were repeat applications, broken down in each category by (a) the country from which the application was made, (b) the gender of the applicant and (c) the age of the applicant (0–10, 11–20, 21–30 and 31 and above). [8729]

Mr. Bradshaw: We do not maintain records on the number of visa applications received for the years 1990 to 1992. Most records of applications at overseas Posts for those years will have been destroyed.

We have the following information for 1993 to 1996:

Year/region	Received	Refused
1993
Equatorial Africa	90,123	18,749
Southern Africa	6,703	266
Near East and North Africa	73,320	4,198
Middle East	110,230	4,156
Far East	75,820	1,205
South Asia	188,453	25,224
SE Asia	98,434	2,821
Australia/South Pacific	19,349	43
Western Europe	92,748	3,074
Central Europe and FSU	103,960	4,569
Southern Europe	66,193	3,212
Northern Europe	63,634	183
West Indies and Atlantic	6,081	1,057
Latin America	4,870	88
1994
Equatorial Africa	97,184	19,998
Southern Africa	9,662	472
Near East and North Africa	76,814	3,261
Middle East	116,940	3,876
Far East	78,798	684
South Asia	210,117	30,504
SE Asia	120,092	2,622
Australia/South Pacific	28,563	53
Western Europe	98,524	2,953
MVD, London	318	0
Central Europe and FSU	15,752	4,919
Southern Europe	54,654	3,338
Northern Europe	72,301	213
West Indies and Atlantic	7,431	1,300
Latin America	5,223	75
1995
Equatorial Africa	89,889	19,573
Southern Africa	16,308	507
Near East and North Africa	78,127	4,509
Middle East	122,794	4,969
Far East	82,591	1,222
South Asia	222,954	35,576
SE Asia	130,246	2,362
Australia/South Pacific	35,699	77
Western Europe	96,516	2,480
MVD, London	192	0
Central Europe and FSU	187,991	7,033
Southern Europe	63,610	3,986
Northern Europe	72,434	301
West Indies and Atlantic	6,855	836
Latin America	6,314	145
1996
Equatorial Africa	126,738	199,941
Southern Africa	19,403	844
Near East and North Africa	80,598	5,187
Middle East	199,080	4,751
Far East	88,542	1,458
South Asia	231,499	36,430
SE Asia	138,067	3,046
Australia/South Pacific	3,895	43
Western Europe	96,496	2,613
MVD, London	723	0
Central Europe and FSU	213,984	9,470
Southern Europe	81,091	3,484
Northern Europe	80,783	241
West Indies and Atlantic	7,845	721
Latin America	8,815	200

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The numbers of applications received and refused between 1997 and 2000 are as follows.

We do not record for statistical purposes whether an application is a repeat application, the gender of the applicant or their age. To ask Posts to provide this information now would require them to carry out a manual search of their records, which could be done only at disproportionate cost.

Applications received/refused

	1997		1998		1999		2000
	Received	Refused	Received	Refused	Received	Refused	Received	Refused
Abidjan	2,053	300	2,343	352	2,176	201	2,865	235
Abu Dhabi	16,532	319	(5)—	(5)—	17,663	434	18,850	333
Abuja	7,930	1,359	11,487	1,452	16,782	1,777	21,602	2,776
Accra	19,145	4,840	22,901	5,078	28,308	5,355	34,144	7,783
Addis Ababa	5,808	866	4,357	362	4,066	551	3,547	519
Algiers	2,657	0	3,499	0	3,370	0	0	0
Almaty	4,589	133	5,334	84	4,996	114	5,486	220
Amman	9,716	190	9,076	227	8,642	228	10,114	151
Amsterdam	7,095	234	7,470	256	8,198	270	8,905	172
Ankara	4,770	49	4,530	67	4,695	90	5,304	52
Antananarivo	324	6	298	8	359	25	354	31
Ascension Island	52	1	55	0	59	0	80	0
Ashgabat	296	0	335	0	710	12	1,049	6
Athens	1,157	13	991	29	1,167	112	1,273	154
Bahrain	13,338	88	(5)—	(5)—	11,026	73	12,410	98
Baku	2,358	1	3,217	16	2,755	113	2,702	171
Bandar Seri Begawan	1,097	5	912	4	1,185	18	1,238	5
Bangkok	42,592	1,406	21,906	1,503	29,278	1,950	32,253	2,100
Banjul	3,115	654	3,137	508	3,933	915	4,579	809
Beirut	8,027	381	7,507	271	7,500	230	8,090	130
Belgrade	13,641	437	14,772	285	2,683	55	11,185	207
Belmopan	22	0	24	0	17	0	31	0
Berne	88	0	57	0	40	0	49	0
Bogota	14,734	441	20,683	1,089	17,129	1,303	19,766	1,759
Bombay	56,488	4,813	63,909	5,006	72,203	5,895	73,317	6,684
Bonn	428	0	584	0	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—
Brasilia	90	0	97	0	95	0	164	0
Bratislava	401	36	6,082	69	22,838	773	21,070	496
Bridgetown	701	78	821	71	922	105	987	109
Brussels	6,026	120	4,443	118	4,442	94	4,574	81
Bucharest	18,830	834	23,206	1,180	22,056	1,416	22,270	1,565
Budapest	1,352	45	1,610	74	4,869	174	1,587	103
Buenos Aires	614	4	574	3	635	10	652	6
Cairo	28,869	949	29,616	904	30,602	728	30,940	612
Calcutta	9,264	118	11,629	89	9,636	173	10,087	141
Canberra	28,585	41	32,317	31	34,095	36	34,423	56
Caracas	573	3	445	12	584	10	708	13
Casablanca	7,368	862	7,084	665	7,212	453	7,763	426
Chicago	8,981	18	10,484	17	11,084	24	11,311	9
Colombo	12,288	608	14,594	622	18,449	1,281	21,288	2,480
Copenhagen	2,197	89	2,240	47	2,654	39	3,229	52
Dakar	1,410	229	1,243	189	1,430	183	1,581	160
Damascus	5,857	233	5,976	297	5,404	411	7,389	536
Dar Es Salaam	6,962	238	9,008	856	9,607	1,489	9,253	1,472
Dhaka	18,132	5,829	17,187	4,562	19,752	4,656	22,418	5,342
Doha	14,972	101	(5)—	(5)—	10,407	303	9,973	278
Dubai	26,364	897	(5)—	(5)—	27,677	953	28,408	1,130
Dublin	3,496	7	3,313	21	3,613	37	5,039	71
Dusseldorf	24,965	668	19,813	483	21,854	309	25,279	182
Ekaterinburg	423	12	2,941	65	2,083	46	2,803	97
Freetown	624	145	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	2,815	420
Gaborone	671	17	790	28	820	34	946	44
Geneva	8,936	129	8,266	121	8,075	148	9,384	188
Georgetown	1,589	208	1,582	190	1,521	205	1,881	163
Gibraltar	568	0	625	0	344	10	242	0
Guangzhou	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	4,234	206	13,453	1,373
Guatemala City	47	0	72	1	89	3	93	6
Hamilton	54	0	289	0	280	3	239	0
Hanoi	1,272	99	2,205	164	1,761	315	2,233	244
Harare	1,530	166	1,955	254	1,900	222	2,960	444
Havana	1,821	106	2,107	96	2,221	163	1,968	108
Helsinki	956	20	1,046	7	948	31	1,367	42
Hong Kong	13,365	332	11,846	380	6,390	399	5,833	290
Honiara	38	0	11	0	23	0	22	1
Houston	4,856	24	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—
Islamabad	33,011	5,974	49,087	7,369	50,816	11,299	64,346	11,047
Istanbul	60,286	2,625	63,338	2,817	58,870	2,240	63,334	2,274
Jakarta	31,980	164	8,855	271	18,539	356	19,340	357
Jedda	25,304	711	(5)—	(5)—	25,803	1,234	21,844	540
Jerusalem	2,234	43	2,378	88	2,021	138	2,189	43
Kampala	9,309	836	11,203	1,007	11,612	1,224	13,139	2,176
Karachi	26,678	1,832	28,063	3,124	30,286	3,915	32,450	4,942
Kathmandu	3,096	296	3,825	676	4,148	759	5,597	1,263
Khartoum	3,401	533	(5)—	(5)—	1,494	315	4,224	616
Kiev	22,469	2,626	23,727	2,580	22,693	2,843	26,145	3,121
Kigali	(5)—	(5)—	105	0	110	0	106	0
Kingston	3,217	232	3,537	230	3,475	389	3,618	408
Kinshasa	686	82	689	44	1,385	143	1,104	255
Kuala Lumpur	3,893	157	2,655	317	2,956	289	2,645	303
Kuwait	40,517	352	(5)—	(5)—	36,199	397	33,469	661
La Paz	46	2	67	1	49	2	56	0
Lagos	42,648	8,856	44,129	8,621	55,319	8,267	62,123	9,363
Lahore	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—
Lilongwe	337	32	374	33	456	39	437	28
Lima	3,387	91	3,884	161	3,642	190	3,678	159
Lisbon	1,107	15	1,352	27	1,213	19	1,352	27
Los Angeles	17,442	32	24,517	93	24,417	186	25,023	98
Luanda	1,497	38	1,609	30	1,744	44	1,857	138
Lusaka	4,082	251	4,488	208	4,746	225	5,289	334
Luxembourg	477	3	397	0	400	0	340	1
Madras	18,970	651	23,868	917	27,003	954	32,531	1,316
Madrid	2,871	137	2,816	184	2,655	132	3,906	84
Managua	17	0	15	0	16	0	21	0
Manila	21,104	1,125	17,868	1,584	19,868	1,274	25,868	1,161
Maputo	652	28	792	23	717	22	933	27
Maseru	104	2	160	6	234	33	195	42
Mbabane	(5)—	(5)—	152	8	123	1	160	5
Mexico City	1,107	4	1,228	5	1,339	7	1,636	5
Minsk	7,552	90	7,131	168	7,137	120	8,081	201
Montevideo	128	0	139	0	88	0	95	0
Moscow	91,496	2,624	77,323	2,105	56,736	1,248	65,544	1,421
Muscat	8,534	76	(5)—	(5)—	10,587	124	10,004	131
MVD, London	856	0	483	0	579	0	(5)—	(5)—
Nairobi	18,060	1,041	17,194	1,578	18,796	2,082	18,949	1,545
Nassau	229	0	244	3	338	3	327	1
New Delhi	54,137	7,200	60,283	8,249	66,822	11,165	70,790	12,481
New York	28,303	170	32,786	268	34,545	169	35,012	166
Nicosia	2,911	233	8,340	422	8,006	461	7,397	325
Nuku'alofa	14	0	20	0	28	0	1	0
Oslo	3,360	62	2,745	34	2,739	39	3,265	22
Ottawa	15,586	159	18,482	111	18,744	66	18,848	61
Panama City	4	0	162	6	161	3	167	3
Paris	22,833	303	21,301	176	19,561	151	22,189	84
Peking	33,743	2,850	33,809	2,602	35,254	2,733	42,804	4,105
Port Louis	8,614	460	9,537	489	9,463	516	10,105	633
Port Moresby	626	4	609	5	676	6	567	3
Port of Spain	1,394	45	1,535	41	1,793	68	1,937	124
Port Stanley	79	0	66	1	49	0	(5)—	(5)—
Prague	1,201	55	1,642	67	2,127	90	2,181	79
Pretoria	12,700	556	19,328	657	22,437	1,162	19,950	1,718
Quito	1,689	167	3,028	201	2,020	229	2,029	188
Rabat	0	0	526	0	541	0	510	0
Rangoon	847	39	1,095	39	1,028	77	1,259	111
Reykjavik	85	0	88	2	136	2	198	0
Riga	2,393	78	2,513	174	2,173	156	1,943	147
Rio de Janeiro	616	22	735	21	720	36	806	62
Ryidah	30,269	545	(5)—	(5)—	31,108	800	29,065	569
Rome	5,576	368	6,059	460	5,422	252	7,408	171
San Jose	53	0	77	0	72	0	111	0
San Salvador	8	1	16	0	15	0	23	0
Sana'a	4,005	401	(5)—	(5)—	4,093	252	5,117	681
Santiago	480	3	543	9	507	6	343	0
Santo Domingo	434	41	1,151	84	1,408	59	1,316	48
Sarajevo	766	68	2,036	139	3,370	163	3,014	73
Seoul	1,536	16	839	15	974	27	1,166	72
Shanghai	(5)—	(5)—	5,683	(5)—	8,353	788	12,833	885
Singapore	3,696	35	4,096	31	4,339	19	5,384	39
Skopje	257	0	417	0	720	1	1,020	0
Sofia	14,867	636	17,241	944	21,182	1,371	22,291	1,303
St. Petersburg	16,610	393	14,382	637	11,347	655	11,981	573
Stockholm	5,890	66	5,865	100	4,582	87	4,598	78
Suva	764	14	763	20	822	14	1,340	20
Taipei	50,133	0	41,089	0	43,042	0	44,959	0
Tallinn	471	9	534	59	827	80	655	168
Tangier	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tashkent	3,115	109	2,915	208	2,581	118	1,946	173
Tbilisi	1,479	36	1,905	22	2,290	59	2,793	399
Tegucigalpa	18	0	23	0	25	0	39	2
Tehran	21,013	821	(5)—	(5)—	22,613	557	26,750	790
Tel Aviv	1,601	154	1,696	255	1,431	184	1,585	123
The Hague	207	0	118	0	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—	(5)—
Tirana	(5)—	(5)—	206	33	1,703	206	2,071	297
Tokyo	5,590	160	5,443	219	5,044	306	5,131	271
Tripoli	618	0	860	3	1,507	12	8,344	256
Tunis	7,374	1,713	7,507	1,260	7,310	1,097	7,809	1,160
Ulaan Baatar	590	11	818	79	911	130	1,084	184
Valletta	7,726	18	7,419	22	6,876	29	4,964	17
Victoria	198	1	192	3	268	0	282	3
Vienna	2,583	21	2,625	18	2,618	15	3,007	34
Vila	15	0	6	0	9	1	10	2
Vilnius	229	16	366	38	325	46	526	65
Warsaw	1,341	142	1,409	116	1,568	115	1,509	213
Washington	10,561	8	12,083	4	11,531	17	12,635	7
Wellington	12,419	20	13,050	24	13,743	43	12,807	72
Windhoek	198	6	363	7	483	15	496	50
Yaounde	1,776	171	2,084	243	2,054	225	2,177	350
Yerevan	667	34	1,022	43	969	28	1,036	101
Zagreb	841	84	342	25	2,435	34	13,490	352

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