They will choose either wide-ranging autonomy under Indonesian sovereignty or independence.

Arguing that Chechnya could get wide-ranging autonomy from Moscow, he said "We need sovereignty, but not the kind Dudayev wanted for us."

"The Government is saying that it is going to give wide-ranging autonomy to East Timor," Ms. Jones said in New York.

On 26 September 1918, his successor, minister president Max Hussarek von Heinlein, offered the Czechs wide-ranging autonomy within Imperial and Royal Austria.

The city was elevated to a metropolitan bishopric, and in 1319 Andronikos II issued a chrysobull conceding wide-ranging autonomy and various privileges and exemptions on its inhabitants.

This did not materialize, and Armenia was left largely quiet, with the Umayyads granting it wide-ranging autonomy and the Byzantines likewise refraining from active campaigning there.

"If they don't accept wide-ranging autonomy, which is the best we can offer, then we will have to handle things in our way," Mr. Karim said.

Indonesian officials met with their Portuguese counterparts last week and pledged to seek an agreement on "wide-ranging autonomy" for the region, which Indonesia annexed in 1975.

Specifically, can Kosovan institutions count on very wide-ranging autonomy in the future?

They said these would include an undertaking that a future Iraqi government would adopt a democratic political system, with a federal structure that provided for wide-ranging Kurdish autonomy in the north.