This impotence becomes more worrying as the June 30th deadline for the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis approaches.

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Mr Bush and Mr Blair were apparently the only leaders at the current Nato summit who knew the transfer of sovereignty would take place early.

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He said the Governing Council wants to know what the United Nations can do immediately and what its role could be after the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq.

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He pledged to block any further "transfer of sovereignty or powers" to the EU over the course of this Parliament, promising to be more "robust" than Labour in defending Britain's national interest.

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He stressed the UK coalition government's commitment to a referendum on Europe in the event of a "significant transfer of power and sovereignty" to the EU but said he did not believe that would necessarily happen as a result of the current negotiations.

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As its Hong Kong bureau chief, she won an Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and shared another OPC award for the magazine's China reporting in 1996.

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Taken together, what Molcho's statement and Netanyahu's statement indicate is that at a minimum, in exchange for peace, the Netanyahu government is willing to expel some portion of the 350, 000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria from their homes and to transfer sovereignty over a significant portion of the territory to a Palestinian state.

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All of these will transfer to the Afghan sovereignty, and the U.S. forces will pull out from villages, will go to their bases, and Afghan sovereignty will be restored.

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The Liberal Democrats said existing legislation, which provides for a referendum when there is a proposal to transfer sovereignty from the UK to the EU, was "the sensible way to approach the issue of referenda".

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