Any country with 50 percent underemployment would declare a national crisis.

Although neither country declared war, the dispute would now be settled on the battlefield.

The country then declared war on Iraq in 2003.

A year later, Nigeria and 15 other countries declared their independence.

Other countries, meanwhile, declared themselves willing to join in the effort to remake Iraq.

The country declared three days of national mourning for the dead.

Both countries also declared their economic zones, which partially overlap.

Also on 22 July, the country declared that it would shun the conference.

Five countries have already declared their readiness to issue national declarations.

It is a rare thing for us to be present when a country declares its independence.