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Earlier this year it was hoped that the Earth Summit treaty would include a provision making genetic materials of all kinds the sovereign resource of the originating country. Nations would have control over who had access to their genetic resources, and if someone else found a way to make money from them, the originating country would collect royalties on each sale...
...ridicule the history of Peru is to undermine a national identity and to make fun of a suffering population that strives for subsistence. Such an editorial only reflects the cowardice and self-indulgent nature of an author who mock the history and painful struggle of a sovereign nation. Jose Gavilano...
...Sovereignty normally means an independent monetary system, separate armed forces and an independent diplomatic service. Would that be true of the proposed sovereign Quebec...
...think Washington doesn't like the idea very much. But Washington realizes it has to be very, very careful on this continent. If there is one place where democracy must run fully, it is here. Therefore, if Quebecois want to become a sovereign nation, they will. It is a matter for the Canadians and Quebecois to settle among themselves...
...were, into ever smaller ethnic or religious units -- which really is not nationalism but tribalism. Such splintering in the name of self-determination and freedom is understandable, but can also be dangerous. It makes no sense for every tribe, every language group, every cultural community to try to be sovereign...