auto-update week 17

central-asia/kg.json

@@ -564,10 +564,10 @@
         "text": "unicameral Supreme Council or Jogorku Kenesh (90 seats statutory, current 88; 54 seats allocated for proportional division among political party lists from the national vote and 36 seats allocated for candidates running in single-seat constituencies; members serve 5-year terms; parties must receive 5% of the vote to win seats in the Council)"
       },
       "elections": {
-        "text": "<br>last held on 28 November 2021 (next to be held in 2026)"
+        "text": "last held on 28 November 2021 (next to be held in 2026)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br>percent of vote by party - AJK 17.3%, Ishenim 15%, Yntymak 12.1%, Alyans 9.2%, Butun Kyrgyzstan 7.8%, Yiman Nuru 6.8%, other 30%; seats by party - AJK 15, Ishenim 12, Yntymak 9, Alyns 7, Butun Kyrgyzstan 6, Yiman Nuru 5, other 36; composition as of February 2024 - men 70, women 19, percentage women 21.1%"
+        "text": "percent of vote by party - AJK 17.3%, Ishenim 15%, Yntymak 12.1%, Alyans 9.2%, Butun Kyrgyzstan 7.8%, Yiman Nuru 6.8%, other 30%; seats by party - AJK 15, Ishenim 12, Yntymak 9, Alyns 7, Butun Kyrgyzstan 6, Yiman Nuru 5, other 36; composition as of February 2024 - men 70, women 19, percentage women 21.1%"
       }
     },
     "Judicial branch": {
@@ -1209,9 +1209,6 @@
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
-    "Disputes - international": {
-      "text": "<p><em>Kyrgyzstan-China</em>: a 2009 treaty settled a border dispute, with Kyrgyzstan receiving the Khan Tengri Peak and Kyrgyzstan ceding to China the Uzengi-Kush area</p> <p><em>Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan</em>: in January 2019, Kyrgyzstan ratified the 2017 agreement on the demarcation of the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border</p> <p><em>Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan</em>: as the last major Central Asian boundary dispute with lengthy undelimited sections, agreement on the lowland (NE part) of the Kyrgz-Tajik line remains highly sensitive despite recent Kyrgyz-Uzbek agreements on delimiting short sections of their shared border </p> <p><em>Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan</em>: in January 2023, the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan exchanged instruments of ratification for the treaty delineating their shared border</p>"
-    },
     "Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
       "stateless persons": {
         "text": "482 (2022)"

central-asia/kz.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "Introduction": {
     "Background": {
-      "text": "<p>Ethnic Kazakhs derive from a mix of Turkic nomadic tribes that migrated to the region in the 15th century. The Kazakh steppe was conquered by the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1925. Repression and starvation caused by forced agricultural collectivization led to more than a million deaths in the early 1930s. During the 1950s and 1960s, the agricultural \"Virgin Lands\" program led to an influx of settlers (mostly ethnic Russians, but also other nationalities) and at the time of Kazakhstan’s independence in 1991, ethnic Kazakhs were a minority. Non-Muslim ethnic minorities departed Kazakhstan in large numbers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s and a national program has repatriated about a million ethnic Kazakhs (from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Mongolia, and the Xinjiang region of China) back to Kazakhstan. As a result of this shift, the ethnic Kazakh share of the population now exceeds two-thirds.<br><br>Kazakhstan's economy is the largest in Central Asia, mainly due to the country's vast natural resources. Current issues include: diversifying the economy, attracting foreign direct investment, enhancing Kazakhstan's economic competitiveness, and strengthening economic relations with neighboring states and foreign powers.</p> <p> </p>"
+      "text": "<p>Ethnic Kazakhs derive from a mix of Turkic nomadic tribes that migrated to the region in the 15th century. The Russian Empire conquered the Kazakh steppe in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1925. Forced agricultural collectivization led to repression and starvation, resulting in more than a million deaths in the early 1930s. During the 1950s and 1960s, the agricultural \"Virgin Lands\" program generated an influx of settlers -- mostly ethnic Russians, but also other nationalities -- and by the time of Kazakhstan’s independence in 1991, ethnic Kazakhs were a minority. However, non-Muslim ethnic minorities departed Kazakhstan in large numbers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, and a national program has repatriated about a million ethnic Kazakhs (from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Mongolia, and the Xinjiang region of China) to Kazakhstan. As a result of this shift, the ethnic Kazakh share of the population now exceeds two-thirds.<br><br>Kazakhstan's economy is the largest in Central Asia, mainly due to the country's vast natural resources. Current issues include diversifying the economy, attracting foreign direct investment, enhancing Kazakhstan's economic competitiveness, and strengthening economic relations with neighboring states and foreign powers.</p> <p> </p>"
     }
   },
   "Geography": {
@@ -575,10 +575,10 @@
         "text": "bicameral Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan consists of:<br>Senate (50 seats); 40 members indirectly elected by 2-round majority vote by the oblast-level assemblies and 10 members appointed by decree of the president; members serve 6-year terms, with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)<br>Mazhilis (98 seats; 69 members directly elected in a single national constituency by party list proportional representation vote (5% minimum threshold to gain seats) and 29 directly elected in single-seat constituencies to serve 5-year terms"
       },
       "elections": {
-        "text": "<br>Senate - last held on 14 January 2023 (next to be held in 2026)<br>Mazhilis - last held on 19 March 2023 (next to be held in 2026)"
+        "text": "Senate - last held on 14 January 2023 (next to be held in 2026)<br>Mazhilis - last held on 19 March 2023 (next to be held in 2026)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<strong><br></strong>Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition (as of April 2023) - men 38, women 12, percentage women 24%<br><br>Mazhilis - percent of vote by party - Nur Otan 53.9%, Auvl 10.9%, Respublica 8.6%, Ak Zhol 8.4%, QHP 6.8%, NSDP 5.2%, Baytak 2.3%, Against all 3.9%; percent of vote by party (single-mandate districts) - Nur Otan 75.9%, independent 24%; seats by party - Nur Otan 62, Auvl 8, Respublica 6, Ak Zhol 6, QHP 5, NSDP 4, independent 7; composition as of March 2023 - men 79, women 19, percentage women 18.4%; note - total Parliament percentage women 20.9%"
+        "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of March 2024 - men 38, women 12, percentage women 24%<br><br>Mazhilis - percent of vote by party - Nur Otan 53.9%, Auvl 10.9%, Respublica 8.6%, Ak Zhol 8.4%, QHP 6.8%, NSDP 5.2%, Baytak 2.3%, Against all 3.9%; percent of vote by party (single-mandate districts) - Nur Otan 75.9%, independent 24%; seats by party - Nur Otan 62, Auvl 8, Respublica 6, Ak Zhol 6, QHP 5, NSDP 4, independent 7; composition as of March 2024 - men 79, women 19, percentage women 18.4%; note - total Parliament percentage women 20.9%"
       }
     },
     "Judicial branch": {
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@
         "text": "<br>washington@mfa.kz<br><br>https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mfa-washington?lang=en"
       },
       "consulate(s) general": {
-        "text": "New York"
+        "text": "New York, San Francisco"
       }
     },
     "Diplomatic representation from the US": {
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
         "text": "Rakhymzhan Koshkarbayev Avenue, No. 3, Astana 010010"
       },
       "mailing address": {
-        "text": "2230 Astana, Washington DC&nbsp; 20521-2230"
+        "text": "2230 Astana Place, Washington DC&nbsp; 20521-2230"
       },
       "telephone": {
         "text": "[7] (7172) 70-21-00"
@@ -1274,9 +1274,6 @@
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
-    "Disputes - international": {
-      "text": "<p><em>Kazakhstan-China</em>: in 1998, Kazakhstan and China agreed to split two disputed border areas nearly evenly; demarcation with China completed in 2002</p> <p><em>Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan</em>: in January 2019, Kyrgyzstan ratified the 2017 agreement on the demarcation of the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border</p> <p><em>Kazakhstan-Russia</em>: Russia boundary delimitation was ratified on November 2005; field demarcation commenced in 2007 and was expected to be completed by 2013</p> <p><em>Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan</em>: Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed a treaty on the delimitation and demarcation process in 2001; field demarcation of the boundaries with Kazakhstan commenced in 2005; Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan agreed to their border in the Caspian Sea in 2014</p> <p><em>Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan</em>: field demarcation of the boundaries with Kazakhstan commenced in 2004; disputed territory is held by Uzbekistan but the overwhelming majority of residents are ethnic Kazakhs; the two countries agreed on draft final demarcation documents in March 2022 and planned to hold another meeting in April 2022<br><br><em>Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan-Iran-Russia: </em>Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia ratified a Caspian seabed delimitation treaty in 2018 based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on a one-fifth slice of the sea </p>"
-    },
     "Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
       "stateless persons": {
         "text": "7,558 (2022)"

central-asia/rs.json

@@ -621,10 +621,10 @@
         "text": "bicameral Federal Assembly or Federalnoye Sobraniye consists of:<br>Federation Council or Sovet Federatsii (170 seats statutory, 169 as of April 2023; 2 members in each of the 83 federal administrative units (see note below) - oblasts, krays, republics, autonomous okrugs and oblasts, and federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg - appointed by the top executive and legislative officials; members serve 4-year terms)<br>State Duma or Gosudarstvennaya Duma (450 seats (see note below); as of February 2014, the electoral system reverted to a mixed electoral system for the 2016 election, in which one-half of the members are directly elected by simple majority vote and one-half directly elected by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)"
       },
       "elections": {
-        "text": "<br>State Duma - last held 17 - 19 September 2021 (next to be held in September 2026)"
+        "text": "State Duma - last held 17 - 19 September 2021 (next to be held in September 2026)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br>Federation Council (members appointed); composition (as of April 2023) - men 133, women 36, percent of women 21.3%<br> <p>State Duma - United Russia 50.9%, CPRF 19.3%, LDPR 7.7%, A Just Russia 7.6%, New People 5.3% other minor parties and independents 9.2%; seats by party - United Russia 324, CPRF 57, LDPR 21, A Just Russia 27, New People 13; Rodina 1, CP 1, Party of Growth 1, independent 5; composition as of April 2023 - men 376, women 74, percent of women 16.4%; note - total Federal Assembly percent of women 17.8%</p>"
+        "text": "Federation Council - composition as of February 2024 - men 137, women 32, percentage women 18.9%<br> <p>State Duma - percent vote by party - United Russia 50.9%, CPRF 19.3%, LDPR 7.7%, A Just Russia 7.6%, New People 5.3% other minor parties and independents 9.2%; seats by party - United Russia 324, CPRF 57, LDPR 21, A Just Russia 27, New People 13; Rodina 1, CP 1, Party of Growth 1, independent 5; composition as of February 2024 - men 376, women 74, percentage women 16.4%; total Federal Assembly percentage women 17.1%</p>"
       },
       "note": "<strong>note 1:</strong> the State Duma now includes 3 representatives from the \"Republic of Crimea,\" while the Federation Council includes 2 each from the \"Republic of Crimea\" and the \"Federal City of Sevastopol,\" both regions that Russia occupied and attempted to annex from Ukraine and that the US does not recognize as part of Russia"
     },
@@ -640,8 +640,7 @@
       }
     },
     "Political parties and leaders": {
-      "text": "A Just Russia or SRZP [Sergey MIRONOV]<br>Civic Platform or CP [Rifat SHAYKHUTDINOV]<br>Communist Party of the Russian Federation or CPRF [Gennadiy ZYUGANOV]<br>Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Leonid SLUTSKY]<br>New People [Alexey NECHAYEV]<br>Party of Growth [Boris TITOV]<br>Rodina [Aleksei ZHURAVLYOV]<br>United Russia [Dmitriy MEDVEDEV]",
-      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> 31 political parties are registered with Russia's Ministry of Justice (as of September 2021); 14 participated in the 2021 election, but only 8 parties maintain representation in Russia's national legislature"
+      "text": "A Just Russia or SRZP [Sergey MIRONOV]<br>Civic Platform or GP [Rifat SHAYKHUTDINOV]<br>Communist Party of the Russian Federation or KPRF [Gennadiy ZYUGANOV]<br>Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Leonid SLUTSKY]<br>New People NL [Alexey NECHAYEV]<br>Party of Growth PR [Boris TITOV]<br>Rodina [Aleksei ZHURAVLYOV]<br>United Russia ER [Dmitriy MEDVEDEV]"
     },
     "International organization participation": {
       "text": "APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, BRICS, BSEC, CBSS, CD, CE, CERN (observer), CICA, CIS, CSTO, EAEC, EAEU, EAPC, EAS, EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-20, GCTU, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, SCO, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UN Security Council (permanent), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC"
@@ -1320,7 +1319,7 @@
       "note": "<strong>note 1:</strong> in May 2022, Russia's parliament approved a law removing the upper age limit for contractual service in the military; in November 2022, President Vladimir PUTIN signed a decree allowing dual-national Russians and those with permanent residency status in foreign countries to be drafted into the army for military service<br><br><strong>note 2: </strong>the Russian military takes on about 260,000 conscripts each year in two semi-annual drafts (Spring and Fall); as of 2021, conscripts comprised an estimated 30% of the Russian military's active duty personnel and most reserve personnel were former conscripts; in April of 2019, the Russian Government pledged its intent to end conscription as part of a decade-long effort to shift from a large, conscript-based military to a smaller, more professional force; an existing law allows for a 21-month alternative civil service for conscripts in hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities for those who view military duty as incompatible with their beliefs, but military conscription offices reportedly often broadly ignore requests for such service<br><br><strong>note 3:</strong> as of 2020, women made up about 5% of the active-duty military<br><br><strong>note 4:</strong> since 2015, foreigners 18-30 with a good command of Russian have been allowed to join the military on 5-year contracts and become eligible for Russian citizenship after serving 3 years; in October 2022, the Interior Ministry opened up recruitment centers for foreigners to sign a 1-year service contract with the armed forces, other troops, or military formations participating in the invasion of Ukraine with the promise of simplifying the process of obtaining Russian citizenship"
     },
     "Military deployments": {
-      "text": "information varies and may not reflect troops transferred to support Russian military operations in Ukraine; approximately 3,000 Armenia; approximately 2,000 Azerbaijan; up to 5,000 Belarus; up to 10,000 Georgia; approximately 500 Kyrgyzstan; approximately 1,500 Moldova (Transnistria); estimated 2,000-5,000 Syria; approximately 3-5,000 Tajikistan (2023)",
+      "text": "information varies and may not reflect troops transferred to support Russian military operations in Ukraine; approximately 3,000 Armenia; up to 5,000 Belarus; up to 10,000 Georgia; approximately 500 Kyrgyzstan; approximately 1,500 Moldova (Transnistria); estimated 2,000-5,000 Syria; approximately 3-5,000 Tajikistan (2023)",
       "note": "<strong>note 1:</strong> in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with an estimated 150,000 troops, some of which were staged out of Belarus; prior to the invasion, it maintained an estimated 30,000 troops in areas of Ukraine occupied since 2014; in 2023, the Russian Government claimed to have over 650,000 troops in occupied Ukraine<br><br><strong>note 2: </strong>as of 2023, Russia was assessed to have thousands private military contractors conducting military and security operations in Africa and the Middle East, including in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, Niger, Sudan, and Syria"
     },
     "Military - note": {
@@ -1347,9 +1346,6 @@
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
-    "Disputes - international": {
-      "text": "<p><em>Russia-China</em>: in 2023, Russia rejected a new PRC map that laid claim to Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island in its entirety as Chinese territory; this move undermined a 2004 Agreement in which Russia and China demarcated long-disputed islands at the Amuri and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River</p> <p><em>Russia-Denmark-Norway</em>: Denmark (Greenland) and Norway have made submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), and Russia is collecting additional data to augment its 2001 CLCS submission</p> <p><em>Russia and Estonia</em>: Russia and Estonia signed a technical border agreement in May 2005, but Russia recalled its signature in June 2005 after the Estonian parliament added to its domestic ratification act a historical preamble referencing the Soviet occupation and Estonia's pre-war borders under the 1920 Treaty of Tartu; Russia contends that the preamble allows Estonia to make territorial claims on Russia in the future, while Estonian officials deny that the preamble has any legal impact on the treaty text; negotiations were reopened in 2012, and a treaty was signed in 2014 without the disputed preamble, but neither country has ratified it as of 2020</p> <p><em>Russia-Finland</em>: various groups in Finland advocate restoration of Karelia (Kareliya) and other areas ceded to the Soviet Union following World War II but the Finnish Government asserts no territorial demands</p> <p><em>Russia-Georgia</em>: Russia's military support and subsequent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia independence in 2008 continue to sour relations with Georgia; in 2011, Russia began to put up fences and barbed wire to fortify South Ossetia, physically dividing villages in the process; Russia continues to move the South Ossetia border fences further into Georgian territory</p> <p><em>Russia-Japan:</em> the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the \"Northern Territories\" and in Russia as the \"Southern Kurils,\" occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia, and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities</p> <p><em>Russia-Kazakhstan</em>: Russia boundary delimitation was ratified on November 2005; field demarcation commenced in 2007 and was expected to be completed by 2013</p> <p><em>Russia-Lithuania</em>: Russia and Lithuania committed to demarcating their boundary in 2006 in accordance with the land and maritime treaty ratified by Russia in May 2003 and by Lithuania in 1999; border demarcation was completed in 2018; Lithuania operates a simplified transit regime for Russian nationals traveling from the Kaliningrad coastal exclave into Russia, while still conforming, as an EU member state with an EU external border, where strict Schengen border rules apply</p> <p><em>Russia-North Korea</em>: none identified</p> <p><em>Russia-Norway</em>: Russia and Norway signed a comprehensive maritime boundary agreement in 2010, opening the disputed territory for oil and natural gas exploration; a visa-free travel agreement for persons living near the border went into effect in May 2012</p> <p><em>Russia-Ukraine</em>: Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and launched a full-scale invasion in 2022; in 2014, Russia purported to annex Ukraine’s territory of Crimea, while in 2022, Russia purported to annex parts of Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts; as of 2024, Russia continued to wage a war of aggression against Ukraine and make illegal claims to Ukraine’s sovereign territory  </p> <p><em>Russia-US</em>: Russian Duma has not yet ratified 1990 Bering Sea Maritime Boundary Agreement with the US; the southwesterly \"Western Limit\" places about 70% of the Bering Sea under U.S. maritime jurisdiction</p> <p><em>Russia-various</em>: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia ratified Caspian seabed delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on a one-fifth slice of the sea</p> <p> </p>"
-    },
     "Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
       "refugees (country of origin)": {
         "text": "1,212,585 (Ukraine) (as of 30 June 2023)"

central-asia/ti.json

@@ -554,10 +554,10 @@
         "text": "bicameral Supreme Assembly or Majlisi Oli consists of:<br>National Assembly or Majlisi Milli (34 seats; 25 members indirectly elected by local representative assemblies or majlisi, 8 appointed by the president, and 1 reserved for each living former president; members serve 5-year terms)<br>Assembly of Representatives or Majlisi Namoyandagon (63 seats; 41 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by 2-round absolute majority vote and 22 directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by closed-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)"
       },
       "elections": {
-        "text": "<br>National Assembly - last held on 1 March 2020 (next to be held in 2025)<br>Assembly of Representatives - last held on 1 March 2020 (next to be held in 2025)"
+        "text": "National Assembly - last held on 1 March 2020 (next to be held in 2025)<br>Assembly of Representatives - last held on 1 March 2020 (next to be held in 2025)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br>National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of mid-2202 (31 members) - men 23, women 8, percent of women 25.8%<br><br>Assembly of Representatives - percent of vote by party - PDPT 50.4%, PERT 16.6%, APT 16.5%, SPT 5.2%, DPT 5.1%, CPT 3.1%, other 3.1%; seats by party - PDPT 47, APT 7, PERT 5, CPT 2, SPT 1, DPT 1; composition as of mid-2022 - men 46, women 17, percent of women 27%; note - total Supreme Assembly percent of women 26.6%"
+        "text": "National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of mid-2202 - men 23, women 8, percentage women 25.8%<br><br>Assembly of Representatives - percent of vote by party - PDPT 50.4%, PERT 16.6%, APT 16.5%, SPT 5.2%, DPT 5.1%, CPT 3.1%, other 3.1%; seats by party - PDPT 47, APT 7, PERT 5, CPT 2, SPT 1, DPT 1; composition as of February 2024 - men 46, women 17, percentage women 27%; total Supreme Assembly percentage women 26.6%"
       }
     },
     "Judicial branch": {
@@ -1187,9 +1187,6 @@
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
-    "Disputes - international": {
-      "text": "<p><em>Tajikistan-Afghanistan</em>: none identified</p> <p><em>Tajikistan-China</em>: in 2006, China and Tajikistan pledged to commence demarcation of the revised boundary agreed to in the delimitation of 2002; in 2011, Tajikistan and China ratified the 2002 border demarcation agreement whereby Tajikistan ceded approximately 1,100 square kilometers in the Pamirs to China</p> <p><em>Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan</em>: disputes in Isfara Valley delay delimitation with Kyrgyzstan; in May 2021, both countries agreed to a ceasefire following recent clashes at their border</p> <p><em>Tajikistan-Uzbekistan</em>: talks continue with Uzbekistan to delimit border and clear minefields; as of January 2020, Uzbekistan reported that it had cleared all mines along its side of the border</p>"
-    },
     "Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
       "refugees (country of origin)": {
         "text": "6,775 (Afghanistan) (mid-year 2021)"

central-asia/tx.json

@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
         "text": "last held on 26 March 2023 (next to be held in 2028)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br>percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - DPT 55, APT 11, PIE 11, independent 48 (individuals nominated by citizen groups); composition as of February 2024 men 93, women 32, percent of women 25.6%"
+        "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - DPT 55, APT 11, PIE 11, independent 48 (individuals nominated by citizen groups); composition as of February 2024 men 93, women 32, percentage women 25.6%"
       },
       "note": "<strong>note:</strong> on 22 January 2023, a joint session of the then bicameral National Council or Milli Genes voted unanimously to abolish itself, re-establishing a unicameral legislature and a separate People's Council or Halk Maslahaty"
     },
@@ -1195,9 +1195,6 @@
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
-    "Disputes - international": {
-      "text": "<p><em>Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan</em>: in January 2021, the two countries reached a preliminary agreement on the joint exploration of an undersea hydrocarbon field containing oil and natural gas in the Caspian Sea</p> <p><em>Turkmenistan-Iran</em>: none identified</p> <p><em>Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan</em>: Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed a treaty on the delimitation and demarcation process in 2001; field demarcation of the boundaries with Kazakhstan commenced in 2005; Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan agreed to their border in the Caspian Sea in 2014</p> <p><em>Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan</em>: in 2017, the three countries signed an agreement of the junction of their borders</p> <p><em>Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan</em>: cotton monoculture in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan creates water-sharing difficulties for Amu Darya river states; in 2021, the two countries reached an agreement to create a joint intergovernmental commission to oversee water management</p>"
-    },
     "Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
       "stateless persons": {
         "text": "4,463 (2022)"

central-asia/uz.json

@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
         "text": "Senate - last held 16-17 January 2020 (next to be held in 2025)<br>Legislative Chamber - last held on 22 December 2019 and 5 January 2020 (next to be held in December 2024)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br>Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of February 2024 (90 members) - men 68, women 22, percent of women 24.4%<br><br>Legislative Chamber - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - LDPU 53, National Revival Democratic Party 36, Adolat 24, PDP 22, Ecological Movement 15; composition as of February 2024 - men 89, women 47, percent of women 34.6%; note - total Supreme Assembly percent of women 30.5%"
+        "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of February 2024 - men 68, women 22, percentage women 24.4%<br><br>Legislative Chamber - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - LDPU 53, National Revival Democratic Party 36, Adolat 24, PDP 22, Ecological Movement 15; composition as of February 2024 - men 89, women 47, percentage women 34.6%; total Supreme Assembly percentage women 30.5%"
       },
       "note": "<strong>note:</strong> all parties in the Supreme Assembly support President Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV"
     },
@@ -1225,9 +1225,6 @@
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
-    "Disputes - international": {
-      "text": "<p><em>Uzbekistan-Afghanistan</em>: none identified</p> <p><em>Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan</em>: field demarcation of the boundaries with Kazakhstan commenced in 2004; disputed territory is held by Uzbekistan, but the overwhelming majority of residents are ethnic Kazakhs; the two countries agreed on draft final demarcation documents and ratified the correlating treaties in March 2023</p> <p><em>Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan</em>: border delimitation of 130 km of border with Kyrgyzstan is hampered by serious disputes around enclaves and other areas; in 2022, Uzbek and Kyrgyz officials settled on a land swap arrangement, resulting in full demarcation of the border; the deal was finalized and approved in May 2023</p> <p><em>Uzbekistan-Tajikistan</em>: none identified</p> <p><em>Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan</em>: prolonged drought and cotton monoculture in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan created water-sharing difficulties for Amu Darya river states; in 2021, the two countries reached an agreement to create a joint intergovernmental commission to oversee water management</p>"
-    },
     "Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
       "refugees (country of origin)": {
         "text": "13,031 (Afghanistan) (mid-year 2022)"