21.   The Government says a contract is a contract and the rule of law must be inviolable, especially with the handover to Chinese sovereignty in the offing.

22.   The issue of sovereignty in the north is one of the central problems of the talks, and no peace settlement is likely unless it is resolved.

23.   The IRA policy still calls for an end to British sovereignty in the province.

24.   The painful concession debated in Israel Friday involved a reported plan for granting limited sovereignty in Jerusalem to the Palestinians.

25.   The party platform denounces the decline of national sovereignty in the European Union and demands the expulsion of millions of immigrants from Africa and Asia.

26.   These centered on degrees of sovereignty in East Jerusalem for the Palestinians, who claim all of East Jerusalem as the capital of their new Palestinian state.

27.   These would bar Palestinian sovereignty in East Jerusalem, formal recognition of the right of return of the refugees and a full withdrawal from the West Bank.

28.   Palestinians fear that more Israeli construction will hinder the chances for any Palestinian sovereignty in east Jerusalem.

29.   Palestinians view those who sell land to Jews as traitors because such properties are much more likely to fall under Israeli sovereignty in a future peace agreement.

30.   Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem is essential, they say, but the precise boundaries can be bargained.