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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In 1918, The Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence as a sovereign state.

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Of course we should always act with care when it comes to the internal affairs of a sovereign state.

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Yet many of them may still be prepared to make such concessions if a viable, sovereign and contiguous state, free from settler encroachment and from military rule, were eventually to ensue.

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This is mainly because in the last four years Africa has learned to relate to President Obama as a leader of another sovereign state and not as a relative of whom much is expected.

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Guinea beat Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso before the 1-1 draw with Malawi that triggered government intervention with Sangare saying "Guinea was a sovereign state that would not be dictated to by Fifa".

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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.

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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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The two, he added, had "a common interest in putting an end to the violence in the country and launching a peace settlement preserving Syria as an integral and sovereign state".

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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.

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When it was necessary to demonstrate the courage of a sovereign, which Herzl spoke of, when it was necessary to dare and demand from the world the Jewish State and sovereignty over that state, the nation's representatives issued no such demand.

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