1.   At issue is the Vienna Convention, the treaty which states that an embassy is the sovereign territory of the country it represents.

2.   Besides, China asserted that the Americans had invaded sovereign Chinese territory, a charge U.S. officials refuted, but delicately.

3.   But Vedrine acknowledged that he had nothing in writing, and Albright insisted that the Serbs refuse even to discuss the presence of NATO troops on sovereign Serbian territory.

4.   In the past he had advocated declaring outright independence from China, which considers Taiwan part of its sovereign territory.

5.   Israel would partly compensate by carving off smaller pockets of land from its own sovereign territory and ceding it to the Palestinians.

6.   Jerbawi says Palestinian leaders should prepare its citizens to accept less than they expect in terms of sovereign territory.

7.   Murky laws that apply to counties that take in sovereign territories give rise to other county headaches.

8.   Sadat insisted that Israel have no early warning stations on Egyptian sovereign territory.

9.   The Chinese have claimed large portions of the South China Sea as their sovereign territory.

10.   The Lebanese are also constrained by the presence of Syria and Israel on their sovereign territory, he said.