But some leading African Union members are fearful of encouraging secessionist sentiment across the continent.
Non-Naga Manipuris, however, who have their own violent secessionist movement, are alarmed by Naga ambitions.
Secessionist sentiment elsewhere in the country has largely disappeared, thanks in part to a transition to democracy.
Within the former kingdom, many Kashmiris have become disillusioned with the secessionist movement, which quickly turned dirty.
The Naga insurgency has in turn helped fuel other secessionist wars that sputter on across the north-east.
In Canada's would-be secessionist province of Quebec , the ineffectual leader of the provincial Liberals, Daniel Johnson, resigned.
"Initially it was separatist or secessionist at least in words, " says N Ram, editor-in-chief of the Hindu newspaper.
In the 1990s, a secessionist movement in the Caprivi Strip, in eastern Namibia, caused thousands to flee to Botswana.
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Paradoxically, many Quebeckers seem to see a secessionist government as the way to get the best deal within Canada.
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India has experienced insurgencies and militant secessionist movements for years, but rarely has any triggered this level of patriotic fervor.
Supposedly, it was to be used as humanitarian aid for the province of Aceh, where a secessionist revolt is under way.
At one time or another, most of these ethnic groups have pursued secessionist ambitions at the expense of a greater Ethiopia.
Back in New York, he opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (in homage to European secessionist movements) at 291 Fifth Avenue.
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Mr. Saleh depends on U.S. financial support and training for his military to hold off the secessionist movements that threaten his government.
Elsewhere, notably in Aceh at one tip of the straggling archipelago, and in Irian Jaya at the other, secessionist sentiment remains strong.
That is why Mr Mas recoils from the independentista or secessionist tags.
Aggression is building up with numerous secessionist bands demanding their (mostly unspecified) rights and, every so often, intimidating the non-tribals into moving out.
Farooq's most acerbic critics are members of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of 34 secessionist factions that opposed the elections.
He went on the run, was captured and handed over by a new government to a secessionist group whom they knew would kill him.
Mr Tadic's party is more liberal, yet over the future of Kosovo, Serbia's secessionist southern province, Mr Tadic has been as hawkish as anyone.
Having successfully attacked the headquarters of the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) two week's earlier, Estrada is looking for new turf to conquer.
Rebels of the Houthi clan hold sway in much of the north, around Saada, while a secessionist movement has gained momentum in the south.
Francesc de Carreras at the Barcelona Autonomous University, an anti-secessionist, says a vote would allow a proper debate and add democratic weight to decision-making.
He has allowed back some of the secessionist leaders from exile.
India accuses Bangladesh of harbouring secessionist groups from its restive North-East.
If Mr Djukanovic turned secessionist himself, western friendliness and cash could dry up.
In addition, Bayh said Obama has been calling for a resolution to the disputes over Georgia's two secessionist regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, for several months.
Correspondents say the security situation in Yemen is complicated by an abundance of firearms, an insurgency in the north and a secessionist movement in the south.
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Tiny Djibouti, home to a large American military base, and secessionist Somaliland, which has peeled way from the rest of Somalia, could both play vital roles.
Having long supported the government of Sudan (a big supplier of oil) in its fight against secessionist rebels, China eventually swung into line with Western governments.
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