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I would also like to mention that the existing union treaty is practically a confederative one.

Along those lines, we should look towards establishing a true confederative transatlantic body between us and the United States of America.

Mr. Kohl's original plan spoke of developing "confederative structures" between the two German states in stages, over time.

Most of the federalists in parliament supported a Swiss-like confederative model, with regions directly forming independent cantons.

A negotiated solution between Belgrade and Priština, possibly of a confederative nature, would have been preferable to the current situation.

He wanted the state of the Southern Slavs to be reorganized on confederative basis, without Serbian hegemony.

We are also prepared to take a further decisive step, namely, to develop confederative structures between the two states in Germany in order to create a federation.

Thus, we are in favor of a confederative treaty, and we are convinced that only in that way will we achieve equal rights among republics.

But he said those treaties did not contain the "confederative structures" that he has called for in his 10-point plan for a confederation leading to eventual unity.

Israel's political parties, media and think-tanks are reflecting deeply on new possibilities, including confederative and community structures that could accommodate Palestinian freedom without risk to Israeli security.

José Gervasio Artigas would lead later a third perspective: the retroversion applied to all regions, which should remain united under a confederative system.

His rhyming pamphlets envisaged equality before the law, their author having signed up to the "Confederative Conspiracy", planned by Moldavia's proto-liberal boyardom.

Their aim was to preserve the Croatian national identity and the sovereignty of Croatia and to organize the new state of South Slavs on a confederative basis.

He still insisted that "we cannot rescind our constitution even temporarily," but he quickly spoke of a "temporary confederative link" or other hypothetical relation with Moscow during a transition to independence.

East Cool to Kohl's Plan East Germany reacted coolly to Chancellor Helmut Kohl's proposal for a "confederative structure" joining the Germanys.

To circumvent that problem, he will describe the cooperation as "confederative structures" and liken them to the "contractual community" suggested two weeks ago by the East German Prime Minister, Hans Modrow.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative aristocratic republic of the period 1569 - 1795, comprising the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their fiefs.

And as leader of a huge but sparsely settled republic whose economy is largely dependent on Russia, Mr. Nazarbayev has been one of the most vocal champions of forming a new, confederative union.

It also called for a new basis for relations with West Germany, suggesting a "qualified community of treaties that could lead to confederative structures in the framework of a rapprochement in the whole of Europe."

The formula seemed to combine a variety of ideas dealing with the two Germanys, ranging from Prime Minister Hans Modrow's "community of treaties" to the "confederative structures" proposed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany.

The treaty plans are a response to Mr. Modrow's call for a "community of treaties" between the two Germanys, as well as to Mr. Kohl's call for the establishment of "confederative structures" as a prelude to reunification.

The confederative Congregation elects one of its own to represent the interests of the Congregation to the Holy See; this is done through the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Mr. Kohl's plan has been greeted cautiously by the new East German Government, which found the offers of economic aid, joint cooperation projects and "confederative structures" between the two German states something they could talk about, provided both states were equal partners in the confederation.

But the paper said the party favors a "treaty-community" with West Germany, as suggested by Prime Minister Hans Modrow last month, and is prepared to consider "confederative structures" as suggested by West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

The emancipation of slaves owned by the state and Romanian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox monasteries was mentioned in the programme of the 1839 confederative conspiracy of Leonte Radu in Moldavia, giving them equal rights with the Romanians.