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...stay out of Mitrovica altogether. Any attempt to establish a presence in the town will lead to "illegal chaos and instability," he says. Serbs like Ivanovic want to prevent the E.U.-led mission because the U.N.'s departure could be seen as a further signal that Kosovo is a sovereign state - an idea they can't accept...
...leave by their own leaders, assured they would soon return after an Arab victory. When this victory failed to materialize, these Palestinians were kept in refugee camps ¬and denied absorption by the same Arab governments that had encouraged them to leave.. Even in Gaza, now sovereign Palestinian territory, refugee camps endure, preserved by the same leaders vehemently demanding a refugee right of return. This singular focus on the dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs and the culpability of Israel, without acknowledgment of the injustice done to these refugees by their own leaders or of the violence inflicted upon...
...certainly possible that moves like Canopy Capital's could begin to generate a real market in the environmental services provided by rain forests. Tropical nations like Brazil and Indonesia, long wary about the impact that international trading could have on their sovereign forests, are beginning to see that markets could be a win-win, allowing them to keep their trees and capitalize on them. For the rest of the world, stopping tropical deforestation is among the most pressing of environmental tasks. Not only would halting deforestation drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it would save the most ecologically diverse and valuable...
...Even as he lambasted the exiled Tibetan leader, Wen added, "We have repeatedly stated that [if] the Dalai Lama gives up his independence position, recognizes Tibet as an inseparable part of China's sovereign territory and recognizes Taiwan as an inseparable part of China's sovereign territory, [then] our door is open to him for talks ... But the recent events exactly prove he is hypocritical on these two key issues. Even so, I want to reiterate that we still keep our word. Now what is key to this is his action...
...recognition. If Kosovo's supporters were more transparent about the factors that made Kosovo worthy of recognition, they could help shape new guidelines. A claimant has a far stronger claim if, like Kosovo, it is relatively homogeneous and not yet self-governing, if it has been abused by the sovereign government and if its quest for independence does not incite its kin in a neighboring country to make comparable demands. Not all secessionists can clear that bar. Iraq's Kurds, for instance, are clamoring for independence. But the Kurds are already exercising self-government, and their independence could have...