For its part, the British government says it is absolutely committed to the islanders' right of self-determination.
However, Mr Cameron said the islanders were entitled to the right of self-determination.
Alas, Saakashvili believed that the right of self-determination stopped with his own people and attacked South Ossetia despite the presence of Russian troops.
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The declaration stated that Sudan should be a secular state or, failing this, that the south should be able to exercise the right of self-determination.
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"And incapacitated patients don't lose the right of self-determination, " he said.
If you tell the world that you are fighting to preserve the right of self-determination, then any outcome short of that makes you look hypocritical or weak.
The World Conference on Human Rights considers the denial of the right of self-determination as a violation of human rights and underlines the importance of the effective realization of this right.
On the contrary, they insist, it is those who do not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state who undermine the principle of equality, by denying to the Jews the right of self-determination they extend to others.
But when it comes to the interests of the claimants, concepts such as democracy, the right of self-determination of nations, respect for the rights and intelligence of peoples, international law and justice have no place or value.
Taking into account the particular situation of peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, the World Conference on Human Rights recognizes the right of peoples to take any legitimate action, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to realize their inalienable right of self-determination.
Mr Ibarretxe wants to hold a referendum on the right of Basques to self-determination.
For Britain, upholding the right of the Falklanders to self-determination is paramount.
By the way, it was Congress, and not Bill Clinton individually, which apologised 100 years later to native Hawaiians for depriving them of the right to self-determination.
The British government insists that its control over the islands, which dates back to 1833, is clear under international law, and that the right of the Falklanders to self-determination is not negotiable.
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Speaking at the UNGA, Mr Qureshi said the Kashmir dispute was about "the exercise of the right to self-determination by the Kashmiri people through a free, fair and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices".
The NGO conference called for a coordinated international campaign aimed at delegitimizing Israel and the right of the Jewish people to self-determination, and belittling the Holocaust.
The UK Foreign Office said the right to develop the hydrocarbon sector was an "integral part" of the Falkland islanders' right to self-determination.
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No political party can long deny the right of the Scottish people to exercise self-determination and survive as a political force in Scotland.
It is the will of the people feeling their right to self-determination, and he has to yield, he has to leave.
It has repeated its long-held position to a United Nations committee that the UN Charter gives the people of the territory an unqualified right to self-determination - a right that cannot be overridden by treaties or other international agreements.
And that agenda includes multiple assertions of the basic illegitimacy of the Jewish people's right to self-determination.
Milorad Dodik, the premier of the Republika Srpska, the Serb part of Bosnia, wants the same right to self-determination as that exercised by Montenegro last year, and possibly by Kosovo soon.
The mendacity of the Red-Green alliance's claims against Israel, the bigotry of their increasingly open calls for Israel's destruction, their denial of the Jewish people's right to self-determination or even our right to define ourselves as a people all goes unopposed.
The ruling centre-right Popular Party of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar -- a staunch opponent of Basque self-determination -- emerged as the region's second political force thanks to its alliance with the smaller conservative party.
KLA, and many of Kosovo's politicians, insist on the eventual right to self-determination, by which they mean independence.
Despite the clarity of the history, he added, there was the fundamental right to self-determination "to which no-one can attach conditions".
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