var strC,aCountries,cDrpDown,selected;
	// concatenate the list of countries
	strC = "Abkhazia,Afghanistan,Akrotiri,Albania,Algeria,American Samoa,Andorra,Angola,Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Aruba,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,";
	strC += "Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Barbados,Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Brazil,Brunei,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,"; 
	strC += "Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Cayman Islands,Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,China,Christmas Island,Cocos (Keeling) Islands,Colombia,Comoros,Congo (Brazzaville),Congo (Kinshasa),Cook Islands,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,"; 
	strC += "Denmark,Djibouti,Dominica,Dominican Republic,"; 
	strC += "East Timor,Ecuador,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,"; 
	strC += "Falkland Islands (Malvinas),Faroe Islands,Fiji,Finland,France,French Polynesia,"; 
	strC += "Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Greenland,Grenada,Guam,Guatemala,Guernsey,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,"; 
	strC += "Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,"; 
	strC += "Iceland,India,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,"; 
	strC += "Jamaica,Japan,Jersey,Jordan,"; 
	strC += "Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kiribati,Korea (North),Korea (South),Kosovo,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,"; 
	strC += "Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,"; 
	strC += "Macau,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Isle of Man,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mayotte,Mexico,Micronesia,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montserrat,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,"; 
	strC += "Nagorno-Karabakh,Namibia,Nauru,Nepal,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,New Caledonia,New Zealand,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,Niue,Norfolk Island,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,"; 
	strC += "Oman,"; 
	strC += "Pakistan,Palau,Palestine,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Pitcairn Islands,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,"; 
	strC += "Qatar,"; 
	strC += "Romania,Russia,Rwanda,"; 
	strC += "Saint Helena,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Pierre and Miquelon,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Samoa,San Marino,São Tomé and Príncipe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia and Montenegro,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia,Somaliland,South Africa,South Ossetia,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Svalbard,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,"; 
	strC += "Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Tokelau,Tonga,Transnistria,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Turks and Caicos Islands,Tuvalu,"; 
	strC += "Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,"; 
	strC += "Vanuatu,Vatican City,Venezuela,Vietnam,Virgin Islands (British),Virgin Islands (US),"; 
	strC += "Wallis and Futuna,Western Sahara,"; 
	strC += "Yemen,"; 
	strC += "Zambia,Zimbabwe,"; 
	strC += "Åland";
function writeCountries(selected){
	aCountries = strC.split(",");
	cDrpDown = '<select class="formfields" id="Country" name="Country"> \n ';
	cDrpDown +='		<option style="text-align:center;"></option> \n';
	for(i=0;i<aCountries.length;i++){	
		cDrpDown +='	<option value="' + aCountries[i] +'">' + aCountries[i] + '</option> \n ';
	}
	cDrpDown +='</select> \n ';//	finish tag
	document.write(cDrpDown);	
	//set selected
	var selInd = 0;
	for(i=0;i< document.Form1.Country.options.length; i++){
		if(document.Form1.Country.options[i].value == selected){
			selInd = i;
			break;
		}
	}
	document.Form1.Country.options[selInd].selected = true;
}