Both legal opinions have endorsed the position of the government of Cyprus that no direct trade can be performed with the occupied areas without the consent of the member state concerned.
Talks between Israel and the Palestinians stalled two years ago over the issue of Israeli settlements on occupied land the Palestinians want as part of a future state.
The Convention was adopted together with a Protocol in order to prevent the export of cultural property from occupied territory, requiring the return of such property to the territory of the State from which it was removed.
When, in 1919, Ataturk set out to turn Asia Minor into a modern nation state, he was opposed not only by the Allied armies which had occupied important bits of it, but also by the imperial government that employed him.
In 1940, when the Russians occupied Latvia, Mrs Wraga was moved to Switzerland, and after the second world war she worked for the State Department in Washington.