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| | Record number of UN Volunteers in 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The UN Volunteers represented 149 nationalities and worked in 139 countries, with large contingents of specialists heading off to prepare a ballot in East Timor and carry out urgent reconstruction tasks with the people of strife-torn Kosovo. |
 | | The countries supplying the most UN Volunteers in 1999 were the Philippines, 132; Spain, 130; Belgium, 128; Japan, 118; and Nepal, 113. |
 | | The countries where the most UN Volunteers were serving in 1999 were Indonesia (including East Timor), 641; Guatemala, 223; Bosnia and Herzegovina, 189; Yugoslavia (including Kosovo), 176; and Nigeria, 117. |
| www.unv.org /infobase/news_releases/2000/00_06_20USA_record_unv.htm (908 words) |
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