which one of these countries did not play the 1996 world cup?
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Controversy dogged the tournament before any games were played; Australia and the West Indies refused to send their teams to Sri Lanka following the bombing of Central Bank in Colombo by the Tamil Tigers in January 1996.
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Iraq has made one FIFA World Cup appearance, in 1986 in Mexico, but lost all three of their games to Paraguay, Belgium and Mexico. The 2007 AFC Asian Cup marked a high point in Iraq's football history when they were crowned champions against all the odds.
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['Australia.', 'Brazil.', 'Ethiopia.', 'Germany.', 'India.', 'Mexico.', 'Micronesia.', 'Myanmar.']
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['Pakistan.', 'Palau.', 'Panama.', 'Papua New Guinea.', 'Paraguay.', 'Peru.', 'Philippines.', 'Poland.']
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['169 Countries. Albania. Chad. Haiti. Algeria. Chili. Honduras. Andorra. China. Hong Kong (SAR) Angola. Commonwealth of Dominica. ... ', '169 Countries. Albania. Chad. Haiti. Algeria. Chili. Honduras. Andorra. China. Hong Kong (SAR) Angola. Commonwealth of Dominica.']
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Ten UN member-states refused to participate: South Africa, then an apartheid state, abstained from signing. So did Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Yugoslavia. Honduras and Yemen didn't vote.
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['Argentina.', 'Australia.', 'Canada.', 'England.', 'Fiji.', 'France.', 'Georgia.', 'Ireland.']
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['Mali.', 'Tunisia.', 'Qatar.', 'Marshall Islands.', 'Macau.', 'Brazil.']
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These countries include; Papua New Guinea, Barbados, Tuvalu, Antigua and Barbuda, Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Grenada, Belize, Bahamas, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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['Mexico.', 'Philippines.', 'Nigeria.', 'Russia.', 'Democratic Republic of Congo.', 'Italy.', 'Ethiopia.', 'Germany.']
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['Russian Federation.', 'Ukraine.', 'Zimbabwe.', 'United States.']
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['Argentina.', 'Armenia.', 'Belgium.', 'Brazil.', 'Bulgaria.', 'Canada.', 'Czech Republic.', 'Finland.']
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['United States.', 'Russia (successor to the Soviet Union)', 'United Kingdom.', 'France.', 'China.', 'India.', 'Pakistan.', 'North Korea.']
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['Argentina.', 'Brazil.', 'Gabon.', 'Ghana.', 'Kenya.', 'Peru.', 'Tanzania.']
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['Czechoslovakia.', 'Poland.', 'Belgium.', 'Netherlands.', 'Norway.', 'Denmark.', 'France.', 'United Kingdom.']
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['Argentina.', 'Hungary.', 'South Korea.', 'Thailand.', 'South Africa.']
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['Bolivia. Copa America titles won: 1. Years won: 1963. ... ', 'Colombia. Copa America titles won: 1. Years won: 2001. ... ', 'Peru. Copa America titles won: 2. ... ', 'Paraguay. Copa America titles won: 2. ... ', 'Chile. Copa America titles won: 2. ... ', 'Brazil. Copa America titles won: 8. ... ', 'Argentina. Copa America titles won: 14. ... ', 'Uruguay. Copa America titles won: 15.']