abstract:A unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) is a variant declaration of independence that is established when the government of a constituent entity of a sovereign state declares itself independent from that state, and declares itself a sovereign state, without having a formal agreement with the state that the constituent entity declared its secession from. It was first formally recognized and described as UDI when Rhodesia declared independence in 1965 from the United Kingdom (UK) without an agreement with the UK.
Theyset upanextra-legal Irish parliament called dail eireann and inJanuary 1919, issued a UnilateralDeclaration ofIndependenceandproclaimed an IrishRepublic.
"Serbia will never under any circumstances recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of the so-called Republic of Kosovo."
VOA: special.2010.07.24
If the sense takes hold that there is daylight between Washington and Jerusalem, the problem will not be confined to the train-wreck in the making of yet-another Palestinian unilateraldeclarationofindependence.