Ms Clinton, speaking in Greenland yesterday, said that US ratification of a UN treaty governing the status of seabeds under international law was "overdue".
Despite an agreement to consult on military matters, Iraq and the United States lack a formal accord governing the status of foreign forces and are relying on an American occupation directive covering several important matters.
While the American-led Coalition Provisional Authority is negotiating the path to sovereignty with the Iraqi Governing Council, the United States has not yet presented a formal proposal governing the status of American military forces after the hand-over, he said.
Nagorno-Karabakh and the adjacent Lachin region that links it to Armenia would be granted self-governing status.
And because it grants Nagorno-Karabakh an interim self-governing status, Azerbaijan's president will have to show that he is not compromising territorial integrity.
The principles include granting Nagorno-Karabakh an interim self-governing status, returning a buffer zone to Azerbaijani control, guaranteeing refugees the right of return, providing a safe corridor between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, creating an international peacekeeping force, and — perhaps the thorniest challenge — beginning the process of determining the enclave's ultimate status.
In the last couple of years, the BBC has been granted everything on its wish-list: a generous and long-term licence fee settlement; approval for new digital channels that compete with commercial offerings in an already crowded market; retention of its unique self-governing status; and now, thanks to Ms Jowell, the promise of an inflation-adjusted £2.5 billion a year in near-perpetuity.
Verulamium became one of Roman Britain's major cities, the third-largest and the only to be granted self-governing status.
In 1907, at the request of the New Zealand Parliament, King Edward VII proclaimed New Zealand a dominion within the British Empire, reflecting its self-governing status.
