Editing Associated state (section)

==Former associated states==
A formal association existed under the West Indies Act 1967 between the [[United Kingdom]] and the six [[West Indies Associated States]]. These were former British colonies in the [[Caribbean]]: [[Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua]] (1967–1981), [[Dominica]] (1967–1978), [[Grenada]] (1967–1974), [[Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla]] (1967–1983), [[Saint Lucia]] (1967–1979), and [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent]] (1969–1979). Under this arrangement, each state had internal self-government, but the UK retained responsibility for foreign relations and defence.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Associated Statehood: A New Form of Decolonisation|author=Broderick, Margaret|year=1968|journal=The International and Comparative Law Quarterly|volume=17|issue=2|pages=368–403|jstor = 757111|doi = 10.1093/iclqaj/17.2.368}}</ref> The United Nations never determined whether these associated states had achieved a full measure of self-government within the meaning of the [[Charter of the United Nations|United Nations Charter]] and General Assembly resolutions. Within a few years after the status of associated state was created, all six of the former associated states requested and were granted full independence, except for [[Anguilla]] within the former St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla union, which separated from the associated state before independence and became a British dependent territory on its own.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}

Shortly before the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, the [[Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Tatar ASSR]] unilaterally seceded from the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], as the "sovereign state" of [[Tatarstan]] and a "subject of international law". In 1994 Tatarstan and the [[Russia|Russian Federation]] entered into a treaty specifying that Tatarstan was "associated" with the latter (rather than being an integral part of it). Through the agreement, Tatarstan delegated certain powers (such as some foreign relations and defence) to Russia. Changes made to Tatarstan's constitution in 2002 have been seen by some commentators as fundamentally changing this relationship, with Tatarstan now functioning as essentially an integral part of Russia.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Stowe-Thurston | first=Abigail | title=A State of the Union: Federation and Autonomy in Tatarstan | journal=Russian Studies Honors Projects | date=29 April 2016 | url=https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/russ_honors/1/ | access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/450/doc_452_290_en.pdf|title=External relations of Tatarstan|website=ethz.ch|access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ydo7Idyqj0C&q=russia+tatarstan+2000+federal+subject+agreement&pg=PA40|title=Of Khans and Kremlins: Tatarstan and the Future of Ethno-federalism in Russia|first=Katherine E.|last=Graney|date=21 October 2009|publisher=Lexington Books|via=Google Books|isbn=9780739126356}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/moscows-fight-against-federalism-fear-and-loathing-in-russias-catalonia/|title=Fear and Loathing in Russia's Catalonia: Moscow's Fight Against Federalism|date=31 January 2018|website=War on the Rocks}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1098984.html|title=Tatarstan: Status Under Scrutiny As Lawmakers Change Constitution|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=9 April 2008 }}</ref>