He envisioned Burundi as a multi-ethnic nation in which the long bloody rivalries of the Hutu and Tutsi peoples would be set aside.

Yugoslavia is a multi-ethnic nation and the creation of the collective presidency was an attempt to prevent one republic from holding too much sway over the country's affairs.

As an example, in the pre-colonial era in Nigeria the most populated country in Africa and a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual nation, poetry was unwritten.

The clash seems certain to complicate recent efforts by the presidents of Yugoslavia's six quarreling republics to agree on a political formula for the future of this multi-ethnic nation.

The international community should remind the Kosovo Albanians that the world will not undermine the goal of multi-ethnic nations by supporting an independent Kosovo.

Because of the existence of distinct racial and cultural communities, 19th century Brazil developed as a multi-ethnic nation.

Sometimes this vast multi-ethnic nation is compared to the Balkans, with predictions that local wars will end up fragmenting it into hostile bits.

Djibouti is a multi-ethnic nation, with a population of over 790,000 inhabitants.

Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds.

The concern of Indian leaders for the integrity of Kashmir stems from the constitutional ideology of India, which was founded as a secular, multi-ethnic nation.