Her coup seems to stem from a passionate commitment less to Sri Lanka's sovereign integrity than to her own political power.The proximate cause may have been an attempt in parliament to impeach the chief justice, seen as an important ally of the president's.
Sovereignty, which is an anchor of statehood, might not have been overstepped, but what became rational for a small state like the Philippines was not so much to exercise force to defend its sovereign integrity, but to learn how to hedge in an international system where great powers dominate.
Expecting the conference to be "a major public event that highlights the desire of Iraqis for freedom and for the creation of a peaceful, democratic, multi-ethnic Iraq assured of its sovereign territorial integrity," the signers hit the key theme again: "we appreciate your commitment to making this unified conference a success".
… We've seen ample evidence that the Russians are flouting international norms, supporting efforts to violate the territorial integrity of independent sovereign nations".
Focusing on Operation Sovereign Borders activities, the integrity of Australia's physical borders is an obvious part of national security.
Hopefully, the goals of the Chinese external policies of sovereign indepen-dence, territorial integrity and national development will be respected while dealing with Latin American large or small countries.
James Ker-Lindsay, a Balkan expert at the London School of Economics, said the court had trod carefully in weighing the right of a people to self-determination over the right of a sovereign state to territorial integrity, and had decided to sidestep the issue altogether.
It may be technically correct that the declaration of independence by Kosovo is within the law, but the issue at stake is more than just "weighing the right of a people to self-determination over the right of a sovereign state to territorial integrity".
Somewhere, in Pretoria's flip-flopping over the crisis in Ivory Coast and the revolution in Libya, there is a principled commitment to neutrality, negotiated solutions and respect for the integrity of sovereign states.
Because 1) Iran would never agree to any deal with anytime anywhere access, and 2) because contemporary international order rests upon the sovereign rights and territorial integrity of all nations, including the ones the US doesn't like or trust.
This condition would require a Kremlin understanding in some form that Ukraine has the right to establish any non-military relationship with the European Union that the two sides may find acceptable, and ongoing Russian respect for Ukraine's sovereign choices and territorial integrity.
