This would meet Mr. Vassiliou's insistence that the island remain a single self-governing country.

The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at the stroke of midnight on 14-15 August 1947.

But for the moment the essential point is that in self-governing countries this coercion of criminals is a collective coercion.

Do we want to create a megastate or a union or commonwealth of democratic, self-governing countries?

Are occupied territories or nations that aren't self-governing countries?

Today Malta is independent, with the Crown occupying the same position as it does in the other self-governing countries of which I am Queen.

In later continuum of the franchise, it continued as a self-governing country with a pro-Earth Federation puppet government.

Within the Member States there are self-governing countries - called, in the parlance of this House, "regions".

They both want to see Iraq develop into a stable, democratic and self-governing country.

New Zealand: New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.