It has stressed that the aim of the soon-to-start direct negotiation is to reach a peaceful settlement that would end the Israeli occupation which began in 1967, allowing for the independent and sovereign state of Palestine to emerge and live side by side in peace and security with the state of Israel.
"If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked strikes at targets on the territory of a sovereign state, which grossly violates the UN Charter and is unacceptable, whatever motives are used to justify it, " the statement said.
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In fact, Hezbollah is more powerful than the existing sovereign Lebanese state.
Critics fear he plans to create a serious of disconnected, semi-autonomous "economic zones" in the West Bank that are a far cry from the contiguous, sovereign state Palestinians want.
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It is the last place where Jews were sovereign until the establishment of the State of Israel.
Its new policy is founded on the belief that Israel and the Palestinian Authority must sign an agreement spelling out the borders and sovereign rights of the sought-for State of Palestine even before the Palestinian Authority fights let alone defeats the terror forces operating within its territory in Judea, Samaria and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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And we agreed to coordinate closely in encouraging the parties to sit down around the negotiating table and to resolve this issue in a way that creates a Palestinian state that is sovereign and an Israeli state that is secure, the two states living side by side in peace.
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Going back to the point I just made to Lester, we support actions and words by each side that move the parties closer to direct negotiations, because that is the only way that the Palestinians will achieve their goal of a sovereign state, and, as part of that, the Israelis will achieve the kind of security that they greatly deserve in a Jewish state.
Of course we should always act with care when it comes to the internal affairs of a sovereign state.
Bitcoin challenges the State as monetary sovereign and that has grave implications for their monetary authority and quasi-peaceful taxing authority.
Arafat was unable to build a completely sovereign state in the modern sense and departed from this world, which was extremely regrettable.
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Four years ago, Bill Clinton took a very dim view of a foreign government meddling in the democratic processes of another sovereign state.
Glencore had raised its offer after its first bid was opposed by key Xstrata shareholders, including Qatar Holding, the Gulf state's sovereign wealth fund.
The terrorist that he was, Yasser Arafat took a different dimension to international politics by giving his compatriots a real and sovereign state on the historical ground of their ancestors.
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He said she wanted to know if it was "a targeted assassination of a British citizen committed by agents of a foreign state in the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom".
While Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of Gulf state Qatar, has said it will vote in favour of the merger, it added that it would abstain on a controversial linked vote on whether Xstrata's board members should receive multi-million pound payments to stay with the future merged company.
"The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state, " the president said.
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The Czech Republic ceased to exist as a sovereign state when Vaclav Klaus, its president, put his signature under the Treaty of Lisbon at 3 pm November 3rd, 2009.
In light of such precedents, the 108-acre sovereign territory of Vatican City State, mapped out on a page of the 1929 Lateran Pacts with Italy, seems a modest guarantee of the Holy See's independence (though the signature of Benito Mussolini on the page's lower right-hand corner does lend a sinister touch).
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The three sovereign states of Israel, Palestine and the city-state of Jerusalem would elect their own legislatures and representatives to a federal parliament.
Last year, spooked by the idea of foreign sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned firms buying up vast tracts, the government resurrected a 1971 law limiting the amount of rural land foreigners can buy.
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He says that one way the bank is doing so is by lending to state and local governments who lack the sovereign guarantee needed to borrow cheaply in markets.
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Peers also heard questions on Rwanda, recognising Palestine as a sovereign state, and the EU emissions trading scheme.
Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
In July 2002, BNP Paribas, along with Germany's Commerzbank AG, led Iran's first sovereign Eurobond offering since the state's 1979 revolution.
But whatever Britain's misgivings about granting independence to this sandcastle, with all the privileges and status of a sovereign state, it had no doubt that Vere Bird was its natural leader.
But I can say that even at the dearth of -- even at the nadir of the valley of death, we never lost hope and we never lost our dream of reestablishing a sovereign state in our ancient homeland, the land of Israel.
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Following the end of the current Iraqi regime, a new Iraq can emerge as a territorially integral sovereign state with a federal-style form that respects the Kurdish, Sunni and Shia communities.
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