31.   Opponents say Operation Provide Comfort creates a safe haven in northern Iraq for Turkish Kurdish rebels, fighting for autonomy within Turkey.

32.   Rather it offers a broad autonomy within Serbia, the dominant republic in Yugoslavia.

33.   A U.N.-sponsored vote on autonomy within Indonesia or independence will be held in August in East Timor.

34.   Abkhazia, demands sovereignty in a confederation of two states, while Georgia says it should settle for broad autonomy within the Georgian state.

35.   Abkhazia demands sovereignty in a confederation of two states, while Georgia says it should settle for broad autonomy within the Georgian state.

36.   Ankara accuses Syria of harboring Kurdish rebels who are fighting for autonomy within Turkey.

37.   Ankara fears it could lead to an independent Kurdish state in the region and encourage Turkish Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy within Turkey.

38.   But militants among them say the state government has failed to honor an agreement under which the Bodos were to get limited administrative autonomy within the Assam state.

39.   Chechnya is one of several small regions in the Caucasus that had limited autonomy within the Russian Federation.

40.   Current President B.J. Habibie has offered East Timor autonomy within Indonesia, saying that if this is not accepted the territory can be granted independence immediately.