statehood

The country declared its statehood in 1947.

The region is seeking recognition of its statehood.

The process of achieving statehood can be complex.

Statehood comes with certain rights and responsibilities.

The referendum aimed to determine the region's statehood.

The region's path to statehood was marked by challenges.

Negotiations are ongoing to establish the region's statehood.

The international community plays a role in recognizing statehood.

Statehood grants the region more autonomy.

The region's quest for statehood has been long and arduous.

However republicans too have supported statehood for Puerto Rico.

But republicans in Congress oppose statehood.

A good two-thirds of the UN's 193 members will vote for Palestinian statehood.

One hundred years after the Declaration of Independence, the Centennial State of Colorado achieved statehood.

So slavery was permitted in the Missouri Territory at the time it asked for statehood.

Once again, a New York congressman tried to put a condition on statehood for Missouri.

The two men are expected to discuss the Ukraine crisis, Syria and a Palestinian bid for statehood.

It means a disaster, or catastrophe, that resulted in mass displacement and blocked their dreams of statehood.

Congress, after much debate between the North and the South, had approved a bill giving statehood to Missouri.

Eleanor Holmes-Norton has championed statehood for three decades as the district's non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives.