national sovereignty
3.Safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the paramount national interest and an unshakable principle for any country.
4.The whole nation speak as one man on this issue concerning national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

5.We are more keenly aware that first priority should always be given to national sovereignty and security.
6.In short, while the pro-independence parties were victorious in the elections, what they want is really “status quo” or “de facto independence”, not an all-out pursuit for national sovereignty.
7.The most important purpose of diplomacy with the small nations in Manchu Dynasty was to maintain the system of the Celestial Empire,not to protect the national sovereignty in a modern sense.
8.But because the Ministry of External Affairs of the Qing government believed the Lhasa Convention would do damage to national sovereignty, the high commissioner stationed in Tibet by the Qing government refused to sign it, leaving it ineffectual.
9.It always maintains that the strengthening of international cooperation should be based on respecting national sovereignty, the protection of the environment and the spurring of development can not be done without peace and stability in the world, and both practical interests of various countries and long-term interests of the world should be considered in handling environmental problems.
10.Due to the fact that the theory applies to both public international law and international economic law in this level, norms of jus cogens occurred in international economic law as well, i.e. the principle of national economic sovereignty, the principle of equality and mutual benefit and the principle of pacta sunt servanda.

