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	Laos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lao People's Democratic Republic is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the West as Burma) and the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
		The early history of Laos was dominated by the wider Nanzhao kingdom, which was succeeded in the 14th century by the local kingdom of Lan Xang that lasted until its decline in the 18th century, after which Thailand assumed control of the separate principalities that remained.
		Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia and the thickly forested landscape consists mostly of rugged mountains, the highest of which is Phou Bia at 2,817 m, with some plains and plateaus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laos (1585 words)

	foreign relations of laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In ensuing decades, Laos maintained close ties with the former Soviet Union and its eastern bloc allies and depended heavily on the Soviets for most of its foreign assistance.
		Laos also maintained a "special relationship" with Vietnam and formalized a 1977 treaty of friendship and cooperation that created tensions with the People's Republic of China.
		Laos was admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in July 1997 and applied to join WTO in 1998.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /foreign_relations_of_laos.html (379 words)

	ipedia.com: Laos Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Lao People's Democratic Republic is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the west as Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
		Laos' early history was dominated by the wider Nan-chao kingdom, which was succeded in the 14th century by the local kingdom of Lan Xang that lasted until its decline in the 18th century, after which Thailand assumed control of the separate principalities that remained.
		The official and dominant language is Lao, a tonal language of the Tai linguistic group.
	www.ipedia.com /laos.html (1048 words)

	Foreign relations of Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In ensuing decades, Laos maintained close ties with the former Soviet Union and its eastern bloc allies and depended heavily on the Soviets for most of its foreignassistance.
		Laos also maintained a "special relationship" with Vietnam and formalizeda 1977 treaty of friendship and cooperation that created tensions with the People's Republic of China.
		Laos was admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in July 1997 and applied to join WTOin 1998.
	www.therfcc.org /foreign-relations-of-laos-73998.html (321 words)

	Laos Volume of US Foreign Relations Released
		Laos, a small, poor, sparsely-populated kingdom, became entangled in the Vietnam war because of its geographic position.
		During 1964-1968, Laos became part of the main conflict in Southeast Asia as both the United States and North Vietnam struggled for control of the Ho Chi Minh trail and the northern highlands.
		Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968,Volume XXVIII, Laos, released today by the Department of State, presents a detailed documentary account of U.S. high-level diplomatic, strategic, and military decisions that resulted in expanded involvement and commitments in Laos.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_7/laos.html (730 words)

	Foreign relations of Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In ensuing decades Laos maintained close with the former Soviet Union and its eastern bloc allies and heavily on the Soviets for most of foreign assistance.
		Laos also maintained a "special with Vietnam and formalized a 1977 treaty of and cooperation that created tensions with the People's Republic of China.
		Relations with China have improved over the Although the two were allies during the War the China-Vietnam conflict in 1979 led a sharp deterioration in Sino-Lao relations.
	www.freeglossary.com /Foreign_relations_of_Laos (468 words)

	Laos (08/05)
		Laos traces its first recorded history and its origins as a unified state to the emergence of the Kingdom of Lan Xang (literally, "million elephants") in 1353.
		Laos was not granted full sovereignty until the French defeat by the Vietnamese and the subsequent Geneva peace conference in 1954.
		For nearly a decade, Laos was subjected to extremely heavy bombing as the U.S. sought to destroy the portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that passed through eastern Laos.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2770.htm (3022 words)

	Encyclopedia: Foreign relations of Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Within a year of serious border clashes in 1987, Lao and Thai leaders signed a communiqué, signaling their intention to improve relations.
		Although the two were allies during the Vietnam War, the China-Vietnam conflict in 1979 led to a sharp deterioration in Sino-Lao relations.
		These relations began to improve in the late 1980s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Foreign-relations-of-Laos (379 words)

	Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laos' early history was dominated by the wider Nan-chao kingdom, which was succeded inthe 14th century by the local kingdom of Lan Xang that lasted until its decline in the 18th century,after which Thailand assumed control of the separate principalities that remained.
		Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia and the thicklyforested landscape consists mostly of rugged mountains, the highest of which is Phou Bia at 2,817 m, with some plains andplateaus.
		The official and dominant language is Lao, a tonallanguage of the Tai linguistic group.
	www.therfcc.org /laos-3707.html (966 words)

	Lexicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	Background Notes: Laos
		Laos is a poor, landlocked country with a real per capita GDP of less than $170, a grossly inadequate economic infra-structure, and a largely uneducated workforce.
		Lao authorities began to realize as early as 1979 that their economic policies were inappropriate, but not until 1985, with the introduction of the "new economic mechanism" (NEM), did they initiate major reforms.
		Relations were cool during the early years of the government, but in 1982 both governments agreed to work to improve them.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/eap/laos9103.html (2315 words)

	Laos - Gurupedia
		Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the west as Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
		Laos' early history was dominated by the wider Nan-chao kingdom, which was succeded in the 14th century by the local kingdom of Lan Xang that lasted until its decline in the 18th century, after which Thailand assumed control of the separate
		Pathet Lao movement overthrew the royal government and took control of the country, which they promptly renamed the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
	www.gurupedia.com /l/la/laos.htm (940 words)

	Lào (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		About half the country's people are ethnic Lao, the principal lowland inhabitants and the politically and culturally dominant group.
		The term Laotian does not necessarily refer to the ethnic Lao language, ethnic Lao people, language or customs, but is more a political term that also includes the non-ethnic Lao groups within Laos and identifies them as "Laotian" because of their political citizenship.
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	Laos -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Laos extends about 650 miles (1,050 kilometres) from northwest to southeast and has a total area of approximately 91,400 square miles (236,800 square kilometres).
		In November, for the first time, Laos was host of the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—an event that was, despite the logistic and financial challenges, a landmark for Laos's relations with its neighbours.
		The former kingdom lies entirely within the tropics and occupies a rugged central strip of the Indochinese peninsula, surrounded by Vietnam on the east, Cambodia on the south, Thailand on the west, Myanmar on the northwest, and China on the north.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=120890&tocid=0&query=laos (863 words)

	Laos, Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Revolution in Laos: the North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao.
		North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao: partners in the struggle for Laos.
		The Soviet Union, China, and the Pathet Lao: analysis and chronology.
	users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/laos.htm (1424 words)

	Laos - Postwar Relations with the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In spite of Souvanna Phouma's assurances to the United States ambassador that the government would provide continuity in medical services, foreign nurses and other technicians were not replaced.
		Another issue was opium production, which, in Laos as in the rest of the Golden Triangle of Laos-Burma-Thailand, had grown as the demand for the opium derivative heroin grew.
		Laos resented official United States pressure as an attempt to shift the blame for the problem.
	www.countrystudies.us /laos/42.htm (236 words)

	Vietnam - FOREIGN RELATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Until the fall of the South Vietnamese government in 1975, the VCP considered foreign policy interests to be subordinate to the overriding issue of national liberation and reunification.
		Among the more pressing were its relations with Laos, Cambodia, China, the Soviet Union, the member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the West.
		Ideological and nationalist goals thus were often interchangeable, and Vietnamese foreign policy could be construed as serving national interests and international communism at the same time.
	countrystudies.us /vietnam/58.htm (249 words)

	Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on Normal Trade Relations for Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, I cannot support upgrading Laos' trading status as long as the human rights situation in that country remains so disturbing, and I am not prepared to let this bill pass without at least some debate on this important matter.
		I have closely monitored the human rights situation in Laos as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs and as a representative of over 35,000 Hmong in Wisconsin, many of whom fled Laos following the end of the Vietnam War.
		These reports, combined with the Lao government's absolute refusal to investigate allegations or to permit independent monitoring, lead me to believe that it is not in our country's national interest to adopt normal trade relations with the Lao government.
	feingold.senate.gov /~feingold/statements/04/11/2004B23448.html (528 words)

	Foreign Relations Of Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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		Thailand's foreign policy includes support for ASEAN in the interest of regional stability and emphasis on a close and longstanding security relationship with the United States.
	www.wikiverse.org /foreign-relations-of-thailand (374 words)

	About Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao (or familiar shorter local expression SOPOPOLAO) is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the west as Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
		The term Lao is most frequently used to refer to the dominant ethnic group, to the language and to people of Laos.
		It is also a romanised form of the word Laos in the Lao language, the Thai language, and probably other Tai languages.
	www.asia-handicrafts.com /about-laos/about-laos.htm (216 words)

	Search Results for laos - Encyclopædia Britannica
		In November, for the first time, Laos was host of the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
		Laos made headlines in 2003 when a Belgian reporter, a French photographer, and their interpreter (an ethnic Hmong U.S. citizen) were given 15-year prison sentences after a two-hour trial in late...
		The seventh congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party was opened on March 12, 2001, by Pres.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=laos (430 words)

	Laos - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		A landlocked region, Laos is bordered by China on the north, by Vietnam on the east...480 km) the Mekong flows entirely through the territory of Laos.
		...by Myanmar on the west and northwest, by Laos on the north and east (the Mekong River...Mai, the Korat plateau, and to Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia; a corresponding network...related to the Shan of Myanmar and the Lao of Laos) migrated to the northern hill country...
		Cambodia is bordered by Laos on the north, by Vietnam on the east, by...connected by road systems with Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam; waterways are an important...neutral as the neighboring countries of Laos and South Vietnam came under increasing...
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	Foreign relations of Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The new government that assumed power in Laos in December 1975 aligned itself with the Soviet bloc.
		Illicit drugs: Opium producer: 3% of world production (estimated cultivation in 1999 - 218 kmandsup2;, a 16% decrease over 1998; estimated potential production in 1999 - 140 metric tons, about the same as in 1998); potential heroin producer; transshipment point for heroin and methamphetamines produced in Burma; illicit producer of cannabis.
		Return to the main page About Laos: Art, Economy, history, geography, politics...
	www.asia-handicrafts.com /about-laos/laos-foreign-relations.htm (407 words)

	Moïse's Bibliography: Congress: Laos & Cambodia
		Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific, House Foreign Relations Committee, March 7-8, 1958.
		A report by James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose, of the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
		Note: Material on the last period of the war in Cambodia, and to a lesser extent in Laos, is in the section Congressional Committee Documentation: The Last Stage.
	www.clemson.edu /caah/history/facultypages/EdMoise/conglaos.html (1227 words)

	Huxley, Tim; bibliography by subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laos -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Southeastern (1)
		Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Southeastern (1)
		Cambodia -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Southeastern (1)
	isbndb.com /d/person/huxley_tim.html (103 words)

	John Glenn Archives, Senate Papers Subgroup, Series 2: Legislative, Sub-series 4: Legislative Staff, Patricia Buckheit
		Patricia Buckheit - Case and Project - Foreign Relations, Congressional Medal of Honor for the Filipino Unknown Soldier, 1983.
		Patricia Buckheit - Case and Project - Foreign Relations, Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A., confiscation of property in Pakistan, 1982-1987.
		Patricia Buckheit - Foreign Relations Files - Budget appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State for FY99, committee report and printed bill, 1998.
	library.osu.edu /sites/archives/glenn/collection/senate/buckheit.htm (3907 words)

	Laos: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
		Resolution of the Lao PDR Government on National Population and Development Policy
		Lao People's Democratic Republic: 2001 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility--Staff Report
		Lao People's Democratic Republic: First Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria--Staff Report
	newton.uor.edu /Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/laos.html (638 words)

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