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175 Europe/Middle East/Africa 50 per cent abroad accounts agreement agricultural Alawite Aleppo Arab Asia Pacific Baath Party Baathist balance Banias Bank of Syria Bosra Bureau of Statistics capital Central Bank Central Bureau Commercial Bank concession consumption cotton Damascus Deir al-Zor Deraa domestic Economist Intelligence Unit Euphrates exchange rate export proceeds finance Five Year Plan foreign currency foreign exchange funds growth rate Gulf crisis Hama Hassaka Homs import industrial investment Iran Iran-Iraq war Iraq Iraqi irrigation Israel Israeli km² Kuwait Latakia Lebanese Lebanon licences Michel Aoun military Ministry mixed sector mn tons neighbouring countries north east official rate output Palestinian payments phosphate pipeline political power station President Assad private sector exports production promotion rate public sector rate in neighbouring revenues Rompetrol Source Soviet Union Statistical Abstract Syrian pound Tartous textiles tourism trade transfers US$365 The Americas USSR