41.   Tokyo has maintained that China intruded on its sovereign territory in breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and urged Beijing to hand over the North Koreans.

42.   Under intxekonal law, recognised by China, the consulate is inviolable sovereign territory.

43.   With regional rather than global conflicts now the main threat to stability, the newspaper said air defences had become increasingly important in protecting sovereign territory.

44.   Japan argues Chinese police guarding the consulate in Shenyang -- which is sovereign Japanese territory -- illegally seized the five North Koreans Wednesday inside the gates of the compound.

45.   Nicaragua began to take notice, and talk tough about its sovereign territory.

46.   The Apache reservation is recognized as sovereign territory within the United States and the tribe governs most aspects of Apache life but federal consititutional rights are still guaranteed.