Outgoing Croatian president Stjepan Mesic earlier this month threatened to intervene militarily in the event that Bosnia’s Serb entity, Republika Srpska, attempts to secede and establish itself as an Independent State. He was responding to repeated separatist noises on the part of the Republika Srpska’s aggressively nationalistic prime minister, Milorad Dodik, who makes no secret of his hostility to the state of Bosnia-Hercegovina and his designs against its territorial integrity, and whose atrocity denial and friendship for convicted war-criminals indicate a dangerous contempt for the norms of civilised behaviour.

Mesic has warned that if Dodik announces a referendum on secession – as the first step toward the Republika Srpska’s unification with Serbia to form a ‘Great Serbia’ – he would send the Croatian Army south across the River Sava to cut in half the Bosnian Serb entity, which ‘would then have to disappear’.

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The Islamic Republic of Mauritania recognizes the Republic of Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state and has decided to establish diplomatic relations, informs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania.

“After intensive communications between the Foreign Ministries of the Republic of Kosovo and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and meetings at the foreign ministers of both countries, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, on 12 January 2010, has taken the decision to recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state,”confirms the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, through a press release.

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Martinique and French Guyana said no to a greater autonomy from French. According to final numbers of the referendum voted yesterday in the French overseas departments, have voted against the passage from article 73 to 74 of Constitution 78,9% of inhabitants of Martinique and 69,8% of inhabitants of French Guyana.

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The opening day of a two-day strike by the supporters of a new state has brought violence to parts of India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state.

Over 100 buses were burnt, and shops and businesses attacked overnight.

The strike was called after the federal government said the demand for a Telangana state would be considered after consultation with all parties.

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Georgia’s breakaway regions signed agreements establishing diplomatic relations with the tiny island of Nauru this week. The small country’s decision created a big noise – Nauru is the third state to follow Russia’s example by recognizing Georgia’s two breakaway regions as independent states.

The price for recognition is reportedly only around $50 million, but for a tiny Pacific island country of some 21 square meters and about 11,000 people, the asking price is quite a good deal.

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Republic of Malawi recognizes the Republic of Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state, says the note verbale sent by the Republic of Malawi Foreign Ministry to Kosovo MFA via the General Consulate of the Republic of Kosovo in New York.

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Sudan’s leaders have settled their differences Sunday over the hotly disputed 2011 referendum on southern independence, the official news agency reported, clearing a main hurdle facing the fragile four year-old north-south peace deal.

The referendum bill has been straining relations between the former rivals for months.

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