Subject: Re: how many countries in the world<br/>
Date: Apr 30, 2001 @ 14:41<br/>
Author: granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-66302650">Brendan:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Are places like Tuvalu and Andorra UN members?<br/>
 </span></blockquote>They are. Lots of out-of-the-way Pacific and Central African nations <br/>
turn up among the U.N. 189.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; How about Cook Islands? Like Bhutan, they are a country but NZ <br/>
&gt; looks after foreign affairs and defence.<br/>
 </span></blockquote>They&#39;re &quot;self-governing in free association with New Zealand&quot; - both <br/>
the Cook Islanders and N.Z. look on the islands as still a dependency <br/>
of N.Z. Cook Islanders have automatic N.Z. citizenship, and the right <br/>
to a unilateral declaration of independence appears in the Cook <br/>
Island constitution. The fact that this is specifically mentioned <br/>
implies a current state of dependency, I reckon. The same applies to <br/>
Niue.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Is East Timor a country yet?<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Dunno, really. It seemed to be in U.N.-occupied limbo the last time I <br/>
looked. <br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>