On July 6, 1975, however, the Comorian parliament passed a resolution declaring unilateral independence.

From there he had gone on with another bursary to Brown College in Chicago and gotten his master's the same year Ian Smith declared unilateral independence.

When the RF declared unilateral independence on 11 November 1965, Welensky was upset at the constitutional break with Britain.

Kosovo declared unilateral independence from Serbia in 2008, but Kosovo's closest neighbour refuses to accept the declaration.

A passive resistance movement in the 1990s failed to secure independence or to restore autonomy, although ethnic Albanian leaders declared unilateral independence in 1991.

It said Kosovo's unilateral independence cannot be used by other states to resolve disputes.

Kosovo Albanian leaders reacted by proposing unilateral independence for 28 November 2007, though the UN would be required to overrule any such action.

To add to the country's troubles, the islands of Anjouan and Moheli declared unilateral independence in a violent conflict in 1997.

African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral independence.

There are five EU Member States which have not recognised the act of unilateral independence declared by Kosovo.