1.  He made his name commanding Russian troops in Moldova, where he helped rebel Russian-speakers to build up and defend a separatist state.

2.  He joined the Bosnian army to fight against the rebel Serbs who wanted a separatist state.

3.  The rebels are members of a minority ethnic group from northern Sri Lanka that has been fighting for a separatist state.

4.  India normally stations up to a half-million soldiers in the separatist state.

5.  The PKK is in armed rebellion to create a separatist Kurd state in the southeast.

6.  The US State Department gave India a good grade Tuesday for its human rights record, citing progress in giving humanitarian organisations access to the separatist state of Kashmir.

7.  US officials have put pressure on the Croats to agree a plan to dismantle the separatist state ahead of the Geneva meet.

8.  Villages that were spared were generally those that agreed to form pro-government militia against the PKK, which is seeking a separatist state in the majority Kurdish region.

9.  Many cholera cases have also been registered in Chechnya, the separatist Caucasus state which borders Dagestan, said Belyaev.

10.  Leghari said he would also discuss bilateral relations as well as the situation in the separatist Indian state of Kashmir.