The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says this was seen as placing a symbolic territorial claim on the islands.
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Those articles laid a direct territorial claim to the territory of Northern Ireland.
Greece believes that the very name Macedonia implies a territorial claim to its own northern province of the same name.
Malaysia has dismissed their long-dormant territorial claim to the oil-and-timber-rich state, which has been part of Malaysia for five decades.
Analysts say the Tuareg fighters, who initially joined forces with the Islamist rebels, are seeking to maximise their territorial claim on the region.
Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, the Irish Republic removed its territorial claim - which unionists welcomed, saying it could lead to a normalisation of relations.
These guidelines clearly state we should not be allowing the sale of guns or equipment or refurbishment if there's a doubt that it could be used to enforce a territorial claim.
Since then many Protestant unionists have viewed the Republic with suspicion, due to its territorial claim to Northern Ireland set against their desire to remain an integral part of the United Kingdom.
In fact, so eager has Syria been to woo Turkey that in 2005 it scrapped a longstanding territorial claim to Hatay, a province granted to Turkey in 1939 by France, Syria's colonial master at the time.
The second had a different result after the Soviet Union sent the Red Army into Manchuria to claim territorial spoils from a fatally crippled Imperial Japan at the conclusion of World War II.
Ties between the two neighbours have been chilly since last year, when a long-standing territorial row over islands both claim flared again.
Lebanon's current claim includes Israel's territorial waters abutting the gas fields it discovered in 2009.
Toulouse could claim to have edged it in terms of territorial domination, but the hosts were narrowly ahead at the break and would have been 12-3 up had Leigh Halfpenny and Blair succeeded with long-range penalties.
It would, if it happened, be an attack on a lawful government that could claim to be doing no more than fighting to uphold the principle of territorial integrity.
China is locked in a series of overlapping territorial disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei, who claim either all or part of the South China Sea as their sovereign territory.
Only by completely rejecting Lebanon's claim can the US deny Hezbollah and Iran the ability to use Israel's gas finds in its territorial waters as a justification for war.
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