He also addressed head-on the possibility of a future coalition with either the Labour or Conservative parties in the event of a hung parliament, declaring the Lib Dems would never be an "annex" to any other party, but leaving the door open for a coalition if Lib Dem concerns were taken into account.
I said in my recent speech in the Kremlin that Russia had never intended to annex any territories, or planned any military operations there, never.
Even at the height of its relative power following World War II, Smil notes, "the U.S. did not behave like an imperial power: It did not annex any foreign territories or impose any direct permanent military rule in the defeated countries".
Reaction to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, a congressional proposal to forbid slavery in any territory annexed from Mexico, revealed that the issue remained strongly divisive among the general public.
In no case was Austria to annex any Serbian territory.
Russia never moved to annex any territory, but it found a way of retaining control without taking formal responsibility — by making sure that the conflicts stayed frozen, with borders kept porous and local leaders fully dependent on the Kremlin.
No one really expects China to annex any part of the Korean Peninsula, of course, But although it supports Kim Jong-il's Stalinist regime, it has plans for the peninsula beyond his reign.
In Israel, Peace Now's two-state solution was blown up with the crash of the Oslo peace accords, the rising Palestinian birthrate made any plans to annex the West Bank a mortal threat to Israel's Jewish character, and the rockets that followed Israel's withdrawals from both Lebanon and Gaza made a mockery of those who said unilateral pullouts were the solution.
Turned behind wall out of view pic.twitter.com/doDhn6yLnZ March 18 , 20143.15pm GMT The president of ex-Soviet Moldova has warned Russia against any attempt to annex his country's separatist Transdniestria region in the same way that it has taken control of Crimea in Ukraine.
It is not allowed to annex any of the land, move its own citizens into the territories, or take any of the natural resources (e.g., water).
