Lee has not shown any intention of reversing his campaign to boost the island's international status.
Like China today, Japan felt that the international status quo was biased and denying what it deemed its legitimate aspirations.
Under this legal convention, Palestine agreed not to change its international status except through the Accords and the peace process they established.
He said Russia's action was part of the effort to reassert the country's international status, but he said it was done in a negative way.
In 1990, East and West Germany and the World War II allies signed a treaty to restore sovereignty to a united Germany and define its international status.
Of the 12 teams competing in South Africa, the top four will qualify for the World Cup in 2011 - while the top six will secure themselves full one-day international status until 2013.
He has been an ever present in the side since Kenya were granted one-day international status in 1996 and some say he is the best current batsman never to have played Test cricket.
And there is one other thing the sobering fact that, as an international status symbol, manned space flight can also sometimes be something of a liability, especially for a normally secretive country such as China.
But their majority has never grown big enough to cancel out either Arab claims to the city or the proposals of outsiders, from the United Nations to the Vatican, to give it an international status.
In the late 1940s, when Zionism was a mainly secular movement, David Ben Gurion was willing to accept an international status for the city as part of the price the Jews might have to pay for statehood.
Irrespective of the nakedness of Palestinian bad faith, seven successive governments have adopted the view that the only thing that stands between Israel and international pariah status is its leaders' ability to persuade the so-called international community that Israel is serious about appeasing the Palestinians.
But the overall principle that Iran ought to forsake its nuclear weapons program, abide by its international obligations and thereby end its pariah status, re-enter the international community and enjoy the benefits thereof applies to North Korea.
"These acquisitions are absolutely vital to helping Tata achieve status as international company, " says Morgen Witzel, author of Tata: The Evolution of a Corporate Brand.
Whether the funding goes to Iran's nuclear weapons program, Hezbollah, the purchase of Latin American politicians, or the further consolidation of Chavez's power at home, this mobilization of strategic advantage has reached a global status in international finance.
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By harassing diplomats, Beijing is putting Hong Kong's special status in the international system in jeopardy.
Biosphere status is an international accolade which demonstrates how nature conservation and sustainable development go hand in hand.
Rich's pardon, however, has ignited a firestorm because of his status as an international fugitive when it was granted.
Reports suggest Mr Saakashvili only reluctantly agreed to another of the plan's clauses - international talks about the future status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The whole point of putting this dead man on trial is to secure a conviction and rob the victim of his status as an international martyr.
Ms Greening's successor Patrick McLoughlin said the Davies commission would identify and recommend to government "options for maintaining this country's status as an international hub for aviation".
The perception of U.S. decline and Chinese ascendancy forms much of the subtext to the current relationship, with Beijing seeking greater international influence commensurate with its status as the world's second-largest economy.
For example, in early 1990, Japan strongly opposed Soviet observer status in the International Monetary Fund, and opposed Soviet membership and borrowing privileges in the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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Oppose Soviet membership or observer status in major international economic and financial organizations such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank.
"If we look at 1997 in a wider perspective and focus more on Hong Kong's status as an international hub, it is easy to conclude that this city will become the center of China's future development, " said Chen.
The new transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, has said the commission - headed by former Financial Services Authority boss Sir Howard Davies - will identify and recommend to government "options for maintaining this country's status as an international hub for aviation".
Although whisky producers claim to detect the first signs of a revival, selling Scotch as the liquor to drink while playing pool or cruising the dance floor poses a risk to the drink's long-term status as an international symbol of success.
All of the above suggests Russian trend growth might be able to stick to the 4% area I thought back in 2008, and this means by 2020 Russia will be a lot bigger, and its status amongst the international elite will rise.
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Under normal circumstances, an international student who loses their student status has permission to stay in the UK for up to 60 days.
Serbia has dropped its demand for international talks on Kosovo's status following its declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 - a declaration condemned by Belgrade.
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