Word: sovereign
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Gorbachev made those remarks in Rome's city hall, where the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Community was signed in 1957. Although 32 years late to the party, he once again proclaimed his support of a European "commonwealth of sovereign democratic states" and urged that a 35-nation Helsinki conference be convened next year to find solutions to "common European problems...
...final analysis we envision Europe as a commonwealth of sovereign democratic states with a high level of equitable interdependence and easily & accessible borders open to the exchange of products, technologies and ideas and wide-ranging contacts among people...
...still dependent on the United States," says Karnow. "What's called a 'neocolonial relationship' or 'a special relationship' is still there." The rebels have seized on the issue and are holding Ambassador Platt "personally responsible" for their defeat and calling the U.S. move "an act of aggression against the sovereign Filipino people...
Other speakers, who appeared in fourpresentations and panel discussions throughout theday, debated federal recognition of tribes as"sovereign bodies" and reservations'jurisdictional rights as autonomous politicalunits within the states...
Without specifically mentioning any East bloc country, he said Moscow would henceforth relate to its Warsaw Pact allies on the basis of "sovereign equality, the impermissibility of any kind of intervention and the recognition that each country has the right to absolute freedom of choice...