The secession of some southern states from the USA in the 1860s led to the civil war.
Arab Iraqis reject this dream, fearing that Kurdish secession would destroy their country and, by the by, cost it a lot of oil.
For the perpetuation of national solidarity and independence, the Minority Peoples of the Federating States must renounce secession, provided that a genuine Federal United States of Burma is in place.
Its agreed secession would not be unprecedented.
Separatist conspirators were attempting to arrange the secession of Ansion through a number of veiled fronts.
The speakers who introduced the senator spoke about the party’s need to be inclusive, to nurture a majority, and not to frighten voters with talk of secession.
The SPLA argues that this is an insurance against the north in case it tries to prevent secession in 2011, but the policy leaves little cash for anything else.
The attempted secession of Ingushetia from the Russian Federation?
Following the secession of other former Yugoslav republics (Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia) Bosnia-Herzegovina, too, declared independence.
The first several years of the country"s history were marred by Indonesian efforts to control Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and singapore"s secession from the Federation in 1965.
They are far more concerned with their referendum on secession from the north, due early next year.
South Sudan prepared to celebrate its secession from Sudan following decades of political infighting and civil war. It officially gains independence on July 9th. See article.
So obvious are the reasons which forbid this secession that it is necessary only to allude to them.
A secession convention already was meeting at the state capital.
Serbia said a declaration would be 'a flagrant and unilateral act of secession of a part of the territory of the Republic of Serbia and... therefore null and void'.
A majority of the delegates refused to vote for secession.
In SEPTEMBER 1999, when East Timor was burning and Indonesia was angrily accusing Australia of supporting secession there, a diplomatic back-channel quietly opened.
True, his election to the presidency did provoke secession and, in turn, the war itself, but that war seems inevitable-not a question of if but when.
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