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Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan
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The Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi
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Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic
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Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic
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East Timor (Timor-Leste) Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia
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Fiji Finland France
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Gabon The Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana
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Haiti Honduras Hungary
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Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy
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Jamaica Japan Jordan
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Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, North Korea, South Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan
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Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg
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Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali
Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma)
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Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Macedonia Norway
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Oman
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Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay
Peru Philippines Poland Portugal
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Qatar
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Romania Russia Rwanda
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Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sudan, South
Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria
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Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu
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Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan
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Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam
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Yemen
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Zambia Zimbabwe
This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn, Managing Editor.
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