111.  Kauter said the Swiss government should remind Kunin that Switzerland is a sovereign state.

112.  Kirk McDonald, from Texas, has ample experience of the problems of forcing sovereign states to comply with international court orders.

113.  Legal experts said the nature of the sex slave system was so flagrant that Japan cannot argue it has immunity as a sovereign state.

114.  Nagorno-Karabakh says it is a sovereign state.

115.  Moscow says the region remains part of Russia, but Chechnya considers itself a sovereign state and has been running its own affairs since Russian troops withdrew last year.

116.  Muljacic said international law does not entitle the tribunal to issue subpoenas to a sovereign state.

117.  Nazarbayev stressed that Kazakstan is a sovereign state and that the government would make its own decision, like all the other former Soviet Central Asian states.

118.  On Wednesday, Yeltsin offered new freedoms to the separatist republic in a power-sharing plan that defines Chechnya as a sovereign state within the Russian Federation.

119.  Republika Sprska is not recognized as a sovereign state.

120.  Security Council resolutions call for reunification as a single sovereign state with one Greek and one Turkish Cypriot federal region.