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Obama in IndiaNEW DELHI – Barack Obama, the sixth American president to visit India since it gained independence, arrives at a trying time, both for the United States and for India.
So when Ukraine regained its independence ten years ago, integration with Europe became the goal for many of us.
Moreover, unlike in the past, today’s corruption scandals are being investigated and prosecuted with unprecedented independence.
There is also reason to believe that Hamas would accept a two-state solution, and declare its independence from the Muslim Brotherhood, in order to facilitate its reconciliation with Egypt and other leading Arab states.
There, the only two political parties represented in parliament since independence in 1964 have ganged up to ensure for themselves an oligarchic duopoly on anything that goes on in the country.
Already, it has threatened the independence of the judiciary, the autonomy of universities, and freedom of the press.
The death of Slobodan Milosevic has just been followed by Montenegro’s referendum on independence.
The definitive end of what remains of Yugoslavia may – at least today – pose no danger of war, but the Muslim Sandjak region will now be divided by state boundaries, and Albanian extremists, with their dreams of a Greater Albania, believe their influence in a separate Montenegro will be reinforced with a yes vote on independence.
Then there is the unresolved status of Kosovo, where the Albanian majority demands independence, and extremists threaten to fight for it.
With independence, the extremists would gain a territorial base from which to undermine Macedonia, southern Montenegro, and southern Serbia, jeopardizing stability in the entire region.
Serbia is offering Kosovo the formula “less than independence, more than autonomy.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev may also insist on Belarus recognizing the independence, declared following last summer’s war, of Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, knowing that this would make the EU shrink from further commitments to Belarus.
In the United States, history textbooks focus on the colonists’ heroic battle for independence in the Revolutionary War, not on the genocide carried out against their new country’s indigenous population.
For example, China has refused to endorse Russia’s recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and has encouraged the SCO’s other members to do the same.
Their continued independence is now deemed essential to China’s national security.
Rather than safeguarding the independence of the Bank of Greece and the National Statistical Agency, the government and affiliated MPs call them into question.
It seems that the region’s popular left-wing nationalist governments have discovered that fiscal stability and reducing debt constitute the key to political autonomy and economic independence.
Ukraine’s Democratic ChoiceSuddenly, Ukraine faces another stark choice: dismiss the government and parliament and hold new elections, or see the country’s independence surrendered bit by bit.
It is natural, as is demonstrated by the huge majority – even among the Russian minority – that continues to support the country’s independence.
As Qaddafi fought his opponents this summer, ten states in southern Sudan broke away, claiming independence as the 54th country on the African continent.
LONDON – Does India need a new independence struggle?
Their national independence is now more elusive than it was before the terrorist era began.
Try to imagine Putin as Russia’s leader in 1920, when Poland gained its independence from Russia, or in 1991, when Georgia did.
The watchwords were independence and interdependence; sovereignty and mutual responsibility; cooperation and common interests.
Russia’s unilateral attempt to redraw that map by recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia marks not just the end of the post-Cold War period; it is also a moment that requires countries to set out where they stand on the significant issues of nationhood and international law.
Its choices should not be seen as a threat to Russia, but its independence does demand a new relationship with Russia – one of equals, not that of master and servant.
Likewise, the decision to recognize Kosovo’s independence came only after Russia made clear that it would veto the deal proposed by the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy, former Finnish President Martii Ahtisaari.
The strengthening of Ukraine’s democratic institutions and independence that will result from it will benefit Russia in the long term.
America believes oil can grease the wheels of democracy, insuring independence.
Hezbollah, which claims it is fighting for Lebanese independence and sovereignty, also bears responsibility for unacceptable aggression, placing the lives of innocent Israelis and Lebanese at stake.
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