Cyprus was a British protectorate.

Within the protectorate, all non war related industry was prohibited.

In 1884, Spain created a protectorate in the coastal areas of Morocco.

It became the capital of the French protectorate of Laos in 1899.

Kosovo was left as a United Nations protectorate whose final status was uncertain.

But that will require strong international supervision, resembling today s EU Protectorate in Bosnia.

Cambodia became a French protectorate in 1867 and gained its independence in 1953.

In 1864, however, the protectorate ended and the Ionian Islands became a part of Greece.

Humiliating a small country and rendering it a virtual protectorate does not serve Europe s long term interest.

The stepping stones from military protectorate to political integration have to be thought out and then spelled out.

In 1880, France annexed Tahiti, changing the status from that of a protectorate to that of a colony.

It became a French protectorate, not a colony as in the case of neighboring Algeria in the nineteenth century.

As a result, Western objectives have shifted in the direction of some kind of protectorate for Kosovo, quite independent of Milosevic.

Without doubt, NATO air strikes and the subsequent administration of Kosovo as a protectorate improved the political situation for Albanian Kosovars.

During the second Palestinian Intifada, which erupted in 2000, Hamas used its weapons and explosives to attack Israelis and create their own small protectorate.

It is relatively content with Japan being a US security protectorate, because it fears the alternative a Japan that expands its independent military reach.

Partly as a result of the departure of the Ottomans, Qatar was made a formal British protectorate in 1916, with Doha as its capital.

Moreover, Kosovo s long term status is undefined although a UN protectorate it remains formally under the sovereignty of the disintegrating Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro.

For example, the French protectorate of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is counted as a DX country, even though it is a region of France.

Even more unsettling would be the consequences for countries that fall between two stools (neither protectorate nor first circle of enlargement) such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.

After it was accused of espionage and spent a day in Egyptian detention , he was released in to a protectorate to fly free only to meet its end !!

The British government agreed that Rhodes' company, the British South Africa Company (BSAC), would administer the territory stretching from the Limpopo to Lake Tanganyika under charter as a protectorate.

Greece could either exit (in full knowledge of the disastrous consequences for the country and Europe) or accept a program that effectively makes it a European protectorate, without any hope of economic improvement.

In 1922, Egypt, which had been declared a British protectorate at the outbreak of the First World War, was granted formal independence, though it continued to be a British client state until 1954.

Without doubt, NATO air strikes and the subsequent administration of Kosovo as a protectorate improved the political situation for Albanian Kosovars. Without NATO intervention, they probably would have remained second class citizens within Serbia.

Is the OSCE's presence retarding the country's independence and economic vitality by creating an image of a protectorate, a country unable to forge international agreements or join powerful international bodies on its own volition?

An international protectorate for the area to protect the Palestinians from their own more dangerous elements, the Palestinians from the Israelis, and perhaps even the Israelis from themselves, has been proposed, but has received scant acknowledgement.

This was recognized by the DPJ, which would like Japan to play a more independent role, as a more equal ally, rather than a mere protectorate, of the US, and thus be a more assertive political player in Asia.

During the second Palestinian Intifada, which erupted in 2000, Hamas used its weapons and explosives to attack Israelis and create their own small protectorate. But the more that Hamas and others attacked Israelis, the more the Israelis tightened the siege on Gaza.

Is the OSCE's presence retarding the country's independence and economic vitality by creating an image of a protectorate, a country unable to forge international agreements or join powerful international bodies on its own volition? Is it the OSCE's presence, and not Albania's government, that is now keeping the country what it has long been, a hermit kingdom?