Lamamra said the international recognition would likely be withheld until a new government is elected and constitutional order is restored.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

In a statement,the State Department said the decision was made in recognition of the de facto regime's failure to restore democratic, constitutional rule to Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Opposition leader Tony Abbott said that constitutional recognition for the indigenous peoples was long overdue.

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Over golf and dinner in the weeks before Calgary, he had lobbied most of the nine to call for constitutional recognition of Quebec's distinctiveness.

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The voters rejected, in the same referendum, a new preamble for the constitution written by him which would have given constitutional recognition to indigenous Australians for the first time.

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