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value="AT">Austria</option> <option value="AZ">Azerbaijan</option> <option value="BS">Bahamas</option> <option value="BH">Bahrain</option> <option value="BD">Bangladesh</option> <option value="BB">Barbados</option> <option value="BY">Belarus</option> <option value="BE">Belgium</option> <option value="BZ">Belize</option> <option value="BJ">Benin</option> <option value="BT">Bhutan</option> <option value="BO">Bolivia (Plurinational State of)</option> <option value="BA">Bosnia and Herzegovina</option> <option value="BW">Botswana</option> <option value="BR">Brazil</option> <option value="BN">Brunei Darussalam</option> <option value="BG">Bulgaria</option> <option value="BF">Burkina Faso</option> <option value="BI">Burundi</option> <option value="CV">Cabo Verde</option> <option value="KH">Cambodia</option> <option value="CM">Cameroon</option> <option value="CA">Canada</option> <option value="CF">Central African Republic</option> <option value="TD">Chad</option> <option value="CL">Chile</option> <option value="CN">China</option> <option value="CO">Colombia</option> <option value="KM">Comoros</option> <option value="CG">Congo</option> <option value="CK">Cook Islands</option> <option value="CR">Costa Rica</option> <option value="CI">Côte d'Ivoire</option> <option value="HR">Croatia</option> <option value="CU">Cuba</option> <option value="CY">Cyprus</option> <option value="CZ">Czech Republic</option> <option value="KP">Democratic People's Republic of Korea</option> <option value="CD">Democratic Republic of the Congo</option> <option value="DK">Denmark</option> <option value="DJ">Djibouti</option> <option value="DM">Dominica</option> <option value="DO">Dominican Republic</option> <option value="EC">Ecuador</option> <option value="EG">Egypt</option> <option value="SV">El Salvador</option> <option value="GQ">Equatorial Guinea</option> <option value="ER">Eritrea</option> <option value="EE">Estonia</option> <option value="ET">Ethiopia</option> <option value="FJ">Fiji</option> <option value="FI">Finland</option> <option value="FR">France</option> <option value="GA">Gabon</option> <option value="GM">Gambia</option> <option value="GE">Georgia</option> <option value="DE">Germany</option> <option value="GH">Ghana</option> <option value="GR">Greece</option> <option value="GD">Grenada</option> <option value="GT">Guatemala</option> <option value="GN">Guinea</option> <option value="GW">Guinea-Bissau</option> <option value="GY">Guyana</option> <option value="HT">Haiti</option> <option value="VA">Holy See</option> <option value="HN">Honduras</option> <option value="HU">Hungary</option> <option value="IS">Iceland</option> <option value="IN">India</option> <option value="ID">Indonesia</option> <option value="IR">Iran (Islamic Republic of)</option> <option value="IQ">Iraq</option> <option value="IE">Ireland</option> <option value="IL">Israel</option> <option value="IT">Italy</option> <option value="JM">Jamaica</option> <option value="JP">Japan</option> <option value="JO">Jordan</option> <option value="KZ">Kazakhstan</option> <option value="KE">Kenya</option> <option value="KI">Kiribati</option> <option value="KW">Kuwait</option> <option value="KG">Kyrgyzstan</option> <option value="LA">Lao People's Democratic Republic</option> <option value="LV">Latvia</option> <option value="LB">Lebanon</option> <option value="LS">Lesotho</option> <option value="LR">Liberia</option> <option value="LY">Libya</option> <option value="LI">Liechtenstein</option> <option value="LT">Lithuania</option> <option value="LU">Luxembourg</option> <option value="MG">Madagascar</option> <option value="MW">Malawi</option> <option value="MY">Malaysia</option> <option value="MV">Maldives</option> <option value="ML">Mali</option> <option value="MT">Malta</option> <option value="MH">Marshall Islands</option> <option value="MR">Mauritania</option> <option value="MU">Mauritius</option> <option value="MX">Mexico</option> <option value="FM">Micronesia (Federated States of)</option> <option value="MC">Monaco</option> <option value="MN">Mongolia</option> <option value="ME">Montenegro</option> <option value="MA">Morocco</option> <option value="MZ">Mozambique</option> <option value="MM">Myanmar</option> <option value="NA">Namibia</option> <option value="NR">Nauru</option> <option value="NP">Nepal</option> <option value="NL">Netherlands</option> <option value="NZ">New Zealand</option> <option value="NI">Nicaragua</option> <option value="NE">Niger</option> <option value="NG">Nigeria</option> <option value="NU">Niue</option> <option value="NO">Norway</option> <option value="OM">Oman</option> <option value="PK">Pakistan</option> <option value="PW">Palau</option> <option value="PA">Panama</option> <option value="PG">Papua New Guinea</option> <option value="PY">Paraguay</option> <option value="PE">Peru</option> <option value="PH">Philippines</option> <option value="PL">Poland</option> <option value="PT">Portugal</option> 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