Western countries are concerned by Hamas' refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israeli statehood.
But many governments, jealously guarding the cloak of statehood, lobbied to keep the commission weak.
R. 856, will give Puerto Ricans the ballot choices of continued commonwealth status, independence or statehood.
That would mean a common Moldovan-Transdniestrian state, with some of the latter's pseudo-statehood shaved away.
Statehood or no, there are plans for English-language science and mathematics classes in the island's schools.
But she denied that his action means that the Palestinian leader isn't interested in Palestinian statehood.
Netanyahu's declaration of support for Palestinian statehood required his acceptance of the Palestinian narrative.
And that gets to the heart of the problem with Netanyahu's conditional support for Palestinian statehood.
He cannot vote, but can speak (and has done so, forcefully, in favour of statehood).
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Mr Mubarak, who requested America's support for a timetable of steps towards Palestinian statehood, got short shrift.
The state of Hawaii asked him to do a commemorative book celebrating its 25th anniversary of statehood.
That is, all he said was that Israel's support for Palestinian statehood is contingent on Palestinian behavior.
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While carefully stopping short of endorsing the Palestinians' claim to statehood, he displayed empathy with Palestinian aspirations.
Some now regard this as an admirable, if brief, interlude of statehood for the much put-upon Slovak nation.
Solomon's English-only amendment was denounced by statehood supporters, although he said it would not stop people from speaking Spanish.
Husseini was a top Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) official and a central figure in its campaign for Palestinian statehood.
Above all, there must be interim arrangements to preserve a sense of momentum, and soften the coming confrontation over statehood.
The Electric Telegraph Company was founded in 1846, and there are probably parts of the British telecoms infrastructure older than Oklahoman statehood.
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Stevens was instrumental in helping Alaska obtain statehood in 1959, and he has served as a senator from the state since 1968.
Mr Netanyahu was quick to seize on the incursions to reinforce his argument against the Palestinians' quest for statehood at the UN.
Commonwealth proponents won 48.6 percent, statehood 46.3 percent and independence 4.4 percent.
In the belief that it would help Mr Barak to be elected, Mr Arafat broke an earlier pledge to announce statehood unilaterally.
In 1967 he had fun trying to nurse the tiny, dusty island of Anguilla to independent statehood, but the experiment was overturned.
Though India's big-state boundaries were determined on linguistic grounds, other claims for statehood, such as those based on economic and cultural coherence, have since been recognised.
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Serbia has vowed never to recognize it, and Serbian officials insist that the latest agreement does not mean Belgrade has de-facto recognized Kosovo's statehood.
Both Israel and the US have said they will not deal with Hamas, and have until now opposed a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood.
And I wonder if that means it makes you less open to the Palestinian campaign for recognition of statehood before the U.N. this fall.
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Not only has he turned a cheek to Mr Netanyahu's provocations in Jerusalem, but the non-decision on statehood was a triumph of diplomatic fudge.
Palestinian officials have denied reports that Mr Arafat contemplated using that speech to take the drastic step of a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood.
And they have based their plans for making peace by establishing a Palestinian state on the assumption that the Palestinians are interested in statehood.
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