It does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and regards it as part of Serbia.
The secession question speaks to a larger question: Does the United States have the right number of states?
Ismail said two documents needed to be drawn up: an amendment to the constitution making the secession of Singapore possible, and an act giving Singapore independence under that amendment.
The CPA offers a new deal for the whole of Sudan, including national elections to be held next year and the possibility of secession for the south following a referendum promised for 2011.
The committee's report said the UK and Scottish governments must fully detail the consequences of the removal of Trident as part of the whole secession agreement as soon as is practical.
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Los Angeles provides the San Fernando Valley (even now pondering secession from the city) with an international port and airport.
To the British, however, secession isn't the legal or proper tool by which to settle internal disputes.
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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And Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, Mr Milosevic's boldest opponent, says that Serbia's isolation is pushing his own small republic down the path to secession.
Bond markets, which have for 12 months tried to price the risk of a eurozone breakup, now have to calculate the possibility of the breakup of the Spanish state - for secession in Barcelona would surely prompt centrifugal tendencies in the Basque region, and exacerbate the fiscal crisis in the poorest regions.
The African Union-led negotiations also cover other outstanding issues since secession, including the status of citizens of both countries who find themselves living on either side of the world's newest international border.
Although the Yugoslav government and Slovenia agreed to a cease-fire and are expected to hammer out a secession agreement in the next three months, no formal cease-fire is in force in Croatia.
If not, it was implied, that would give him ammunition for a new referendum (the third) on secession.
This precipitated secession by the ten northern tribes, who created the Kingdom of Israel centered in the land of Samaria.
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But Egypt, concerned to ensure the flow of Nile water, is agitated by the possibility of southern secession from Sudan's Muslim north.
Fears that a true federal system might lead to the break-up of Nigeria, a fear with substance after the Biafran war of secession of 1967-70, are now misplaced.
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Sudan has been suffering too - the IMF predicted that its economy would shrink by 11% in 2012 because of the loss of oil revenue following the South's secession.
That would mean, later, a third referendum on secession and maybe the break-up of Canada.
He says he does not seek immediate secession but wants the Belgian federal shell gradually to dissolve into the EU. He has a vision not only of Flemish emancipation but of economic liberty: Flanders should be permitted to develop a liberal economy less burdened by Walloon demands for social transfers.
Theodore Roosevelt fomented Panama's secession from Colombia when the latter refused to let him build his canal.
And like the Puritans before them, their secession was not merely born out of politics, but out of religious fervor.
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Unlike the southern rebels, who won a promise of an eventual referendum on secession, those in Darfur want only a fairer share for their region of the oil revenues that the central government reserves to itself.
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In Bosnia she called for unity and criticised threats of secession made by Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, the Serb part of the country.
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The vote was to take place in January 2011, at the same time as the referendum that led to South Sudan's secession.
So there are few recent examples of mergers between nation-states (North and South Yemen and the two Germanies are rare exceptions) but many of secession.
But the outcome may not reflect a wider resurrection of support for secession in Quebec.
So secession could occur in spring and an election near the year's end.
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No matter how satisfied Quebeckers are with Mr Bouchard and his government, support for secession obstinately refuses to go beyond 45% in the opinion polls, and sometimes dips much lower.
Karadzic -- last seen in public in 1996 -- was the Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1992-1995 war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.
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