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02-02-2011, 05:03 AM
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 Palau After decades as part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific under US administration, Palau, an island nation in the Pacific, formally gained independence on October 1, 1994. 
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02-02-2011, 05:04 AM
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 Eritrea Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia in 1952 leading to an independence struggle that finally resulted in independence on May 24, 1993.
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02-02-2011, 05:04 AM
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 Czech Republic After decades of communist rule Czechoslovakia became a democracy in November 1989 and on January 1, 1993 the country peacefully split into two Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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02-02-2011, 05:04 AM
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 Slovakia Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia and it officially became a separate country on January 1, 1993.
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02-02-2011, 05:04 AM
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 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from the former Yugoslavia on March 3, 1992 following a referendum that was boycotted by ethnic Serbs. The referendum resulted in the Bosnian War that ended in 1995.
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