Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil are among those which have so far withheld recognition.
Withdrawal of trading privileges - CAP members can revoke, withdraw or temporarily withhold recognition and trading privileges.
The 15 nations in the Caribbean Community, or Caricom, have withheld recognition of Haiti's interim government, whose leaders were selected by a council of elders.
Because Russia declared Ferdinand a usurper, Europe withheld recognition, the bishops of the Holy Synod would not pay him homage, and conspiracies flourished.
The Supreme Court could decide in the next year whether it is constitutional for states to ban gay marriage or for the federal government to withhold recognition when states allow it.
Yet each of the three would find it intolerable if an outside power indefinitely withheld recognition & treated with Anglo-Saxon Nationali government of the House of Valois or the Sons of the Confederacy.
He also strongly opposed white minority rule in Rhodesia, and during the 1979 Commonwealth Conference he helped convince Margaret Thatcher to withhold recognition of the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia government, which she had earlier promised to recognise.
Just how sensitive the issue of Jerusalem is was laid bare at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday when, fearing accusations of not being pro-Israel enough, the party leadership hurriedly revived a clause in the platform from previous years proclaiming the city as the Jewish state's capital when much of the rest of the world withholds recognition.
But binding or not, many of Haiti's most important international allies have made clear to Mr. Préval that they would withhold recognition of a runoff that is not conducted according to the terms of the O.A.S. report, threatening to block billions of dollars in assistance that had been promised as this desperately poor country struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake a year ago.
Some 80 countries have recognised Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008, but a still larger number have withheld recognition.
