Hi, Joe Delahaye!
I read your message from 11.06.2017 20:22

  JD> Now compare that to a hypothetical situation (maybe).  The
  JD> province of Limburg, or Brabant, exists in both the Netherlands
  JD> and Belgium.  If the people in either country decided to hold a
  JD> referendem in those provinces, to see if they should join the
  JD> other, would that be allowed by the central government in
  JD> either country?

The UN doctrine about "inviolability of frontiers" has existed for a 
long time, but so many new countries appeared and other countries 
disappeared.
Yes, the central government doesn't want to divide the country. But when 
Catalonia, Spain will held its independence referendum, what options 
will be available for Madrid?

Another case when two forces that want to divide country are equal. 
Then, theoretically, we should have a peaceful divorce as it was in 
Czechoslovakia. But the nationalists in one part may want to rule over 
both parts... In this case we have the Ukrainian scenario.

Bye, Joe!
Alexander Koryagin
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