The rest of the sparsely populated province is marked by the simmering separatist movement, which at times has threatened to spiral out of control.
In addition to the uprising, his government is fighting a separatist movement in the south and an uprising of Shia Houthi rebels in the north.
Yemen has complained to the Council about a seized weapons shipment it says was sent by Iran whom it claims is supporting a southern separatist movement.
In Balochistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and its affiliates have helped dilute the impact of an armed nationalist separatist movement by diverting international attention to the issue of targeting Shias.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the Quebec separatist movement was among the political victims of last month's terrorist attacks in the United States.
They argue that talks must start soon between President Wahid and representatives of the separatist movement, including the exiled leader of the Free Aceh Movement, Hasan Tiro, who lives in Sweden.
Meanwhile Chairman of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Nur Bekri told Xinhua News Agency that this was neither ethnic nor religious conflict, but a separatist movement that left no space for compromise.
Pakistan faces an insurgency in the north with terrorist strikes being carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, a separatist movement in Balochistan province and ever increasing ethnic and sectarian violence in Karachi.
Before he left office, Saleh faced a separatist movement in the south, sectarian tensions in its north and the growing presence of what Western officials describe as al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
That has been even truer since April 5th, when Umberto Bossi resigned as head of the Northern League, the regionalist-cum-separatist movement he founded in 1991, which held the balance of power until the fall of Silvio Berlusconi's government last year.
The French raids began this week in response to an armed separatist movement, which has cut off the North of Mali from the rest of the rest of the country and threatened strict and reportedly violent treatment of the local population.
The BBC's Mame Less Camara, in Dakar, says that the ferry probably resumed service before it had undergone sufficient checks because the Senegalese Government wanted to show goodwill towards the separatist movement of Casamance, which whom it was supposed to resume talks.
Many of the bombings are probably carried out by criminals rather than separatists, though it is hard these days to distinguish between the two: the separatist movement, hopelessly split into factions, is being taken over by mafia-style gangs engaged in racketeering and guerrilla warfare.
It sees the dispute as a purely bilateral matter between the two governments and conceding any form of self-determination for the people of Gibraltar would set an unwelcome precedent that might be exploited by the separatist movement in the Basque country of northern Spain.
Huge numbers of police have been drafted into the city with worries too about whether the Basque separatist movement ETA, which has killed some 800 people in recent years, will seek to use the presence of European leaders to unleash more violence to publicise their cause.
Some of them received weapons training at Afghan camps affiliated with al Qaeda or the Taliban as part of their separatist movement -- the Uighur minority is brutally repressed by the Chinese government -- though they are not considered threats to the U.S. or other Western nations.
That move spared the life of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party -- a militant separatist movement accused of staging cross-border attacks from Iraq into Turkey -- who was hunted down in Kenya and returned to Turkey for trial during one of Ecevit's terms in office.
Secondly, while the war on the Taliban has provided some cover for captures of Baloch separatists, for the most part, the two conflicts remain distinct, not only from the perspective of the Pakistani military, but also, from the perspective of the Pakistani public and indeed, in Washington, where the Baloch separatist movement has gotten relatively minimal attention.
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The separatist Polisario movement fought a guerrilla war against Moroccan troops until 1991 and still seeks to be recognised as an independent state.
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Though martial law was lifted in Aceh in May, having been imposed a year earlier, the separatist Free Aceh Movement is still active.
Though martial law was lifted in Aceh in May, having been imposed a year earlier, there is no sign yet that the army has crushed the separatist Free Aceh Movement.
Tensions between Jakarta and Aceh have been running high recently over the decision by Aceh's parliament to use the flag of the now defunct separatist Free Aceh Movement as its official symbol, the BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta reports.
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But the alliance quickly collapsed, and the Islamists drove out the Tuareg separatist group - the National Movement Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) - from the main cities and towns in the north.
The Free Aceh Movement, an Indonesian separatist group known as GAM, is among those anxious to avoid association with international terrorist networks.
Reports have also emerged that a senior figure in the main militant Islamist movement - Ansar Dine - has been captured near the Algerian border by a rival separatist group.
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