11.   Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, also criticized the peacekeeping plan, calling it nothing more than a blueprint for the extended occupation of sovereign country.

12.   The fundamental issue is the appropriate role for an international agency and its technical staff in dealing with sovereign countries that come to it for assistance.

13.   The NATO intervention in Kosovo was bitterly opposed by the Beijing government on the grounds that it represented interference in a sovereign country.

14.   Thursday afternoon, the Parti Quebecois-dominated legislature will present the bill calling for the establishment of a sovereign country.

15.   Yet governments place the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country above any obligation to stop the slave trade in Sudan.

16.   A number of separatist factions in both Indian and Pakistani Kashmir hope to reunite the divided region and create a sovereign Muslim country.

17.   Although Indian leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru resisted partition, India officially accepted it and recognizes Pakistan as a sovereign country.

18.   Armenia called recently for independence for the separatist region, but said Armenia does not plan yet to recognize the enclave as a sovereign country.

19.   Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke and the Muslim-led government insist Bosnia will remain a sovereign country within its internationally recognized borders.

20.   Because the United States does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country, Lee is visiting as a private citizen instead of as a head of state.