Other CNRS Nations
Societies from the countries below, as well as Fourth World¹ nations, have expressed interest in the Commonwealth Nations Research Society:
Argentina
Dominion of British West Florida (DF)²
DOMINION OF BRITISH WEST FLORIDA LINKS
RATIONALE FOR CNRS MEMBERSHIP
| Country/Territory/Nation | Connection to Commonwealth |
| Dominion of British West Florida | British
Colony of West Florida was established as part of
the Royal Proclamation of 1763 (that proclamation also created
colonies that would become the Dominion of Canada). On 27
October 1810, President James Madison annexed the area by
Presidential Proclamation and without the Congressional and
Territory actions required under US and international law. |
Chile
France
Ireland
Independent Long Island (ILI)²
RATIONALE FOR CNRS MEMBERSHIP
| Country/Territory/Nation | Connection to Commonwealth |
| Independent Long Island | English dominion in 1664; island was captured early by British during the American Revolutionary War in the Battle of Long Island; island remained a British stronghold until the end of the war. A natural inhabited island under international law, which is not allowed to exercise any of its rights under the Law of Nations by three competing and alien jurisdictions (NYC, NYS and USA), all currently extracting ill-gotten tribute. |
Pakistan
Taiwan or Republic of China (TW)³
- Republic of China (Wikipedia)
- Political status of Taiwan (Wikipedia)
- Overseas Office Republic Of China (Taiwan)
- Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US
- Documents on the Political Status of Taiwan
RATIONALE FOR CNRS MEMBERSHIP
| Country/Territory/Nation | Connection to Commonwealth |
| Taiwan |
By the
1842 Treaty of Nanking Britain secured Hong Kong, and extraterritorial
rights in Shanghai, and four other treaty ports of Canton, Amoy,
Foochow and Ningpo, where Britons were to be allowed to trade with
anyone they wished. After the defeat of the Beiyang Government in
Beijing by the Kuomintang (KMT), and the purging of Communists from the
party, the 1928 Nanjing Nationalist Government received widespread
diplomatic recognition. This recognition lasted throughout the Chinese
Civil War, World War II, and continued after the KMT retreat to Taiwan
in 1949. Having fought on the side of the Allied Powers during World
War II, the Republic of China (ROC), now Taiwan, the government of all
of China before 1949, and directly linked to Britain through Hong Kong,
became one of the founding members of the UN, and held one of the five
permanent seats on the UN Security Council until 1971, when it was
expelled by General Assembly Resolution 2758, and replaced in all UN
organs with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Multiple successive
attempts by the ROC to rejoin the UN have not made it past the
committee level. The United Kingdom established diplomatic relations
with the PRC in 1950, but maintained a consulate in Taiwan accredited
to the provincial rather than central authorities until 1972, when
relations with the PRC were upgraded to full ambassador level. Taiwan
today has formal diplomatic relations with nine Commonwealth of Nations
states: Gambia, Kiribati, Nauru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Swaziland and
Tuvalu. Taiwan is also recognised as a sovereign state by another
fourteen states. In 2002, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York,
referred to Taiwan as a country. Former US Secretary of Defence Donald
Rumsfeld stated in a local Chinese newspaper in California in July 2005
that Taiwan is "a sovereign nation". In a controversial speech on 4
February 2006, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called Taiwan a
country with very high education levels. One month later, he told a
Japanese parliamentary committee that "[Taiwan's] democracy is
considerably matured and liberal economics is deeply ingrained, so it
is a law-abiding country. In various ways, it is a country that shares
a sense of values with Japan." |
United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UM)³
- United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago
- United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago Wiki article
- UMMOA achieves real international recognition
RATIONALE FOR CNRS MEMBERSHIP
| Country/Territory/Nation | Connection to Commonwealth |
| Baker Island | Annexed by US under an act of Congress, dated 18 August 1856 (48 U.S.C. 1411-1419, 11 Stat. 120). Also former British Colony since 1858. However, US says claim was invalid due to previous US claim. Yet Baker from 1886 to 1934 was a British Overseas Territory and the British even leased the island to an Australian trading company. In 1935 the island was colonized by Americans from Hawaii (former Kingdom of Hawaii) in order to re-establish US control against British claims. |
| Howland Island | Annexed by US under an act of Congress, dated 18 August 1856 (48 U.S.C. 1411-1419, 11 Stat. 120). Also former British Colony since 1858. British leased the island to an Australian trading company. John T. Arundel and Co., a British firm, with laborers from the Cook Islands and Niue (currently Commonwealth dependencies), occupied the island and made it their headquarters for a guano-digging enterprise in the central Pacific between 1886 and 1891. From 1886 to 1934, Howland was a British Overseas Territory. In 1935 the island was colonized by Americans from Hawaii (former Kingdom of Hawaii) in order to re-establish US control against British claims. |
| Jarvis Island | Former British Colony since 12 August 1821; later annexed by US under an act of Congress, dated August 18, 1856 (48 U.S.C. 1411-1419, 11 Stat. 120), even though the British had previous legitimate claim. From 1886 to 1934, Jarvis was a British Overseas Territory. |
| Hawaii | Former
Kingdom of Hawaii, established with the help of British
sailors John Young, Isaac Davis and Alexander Adams. In 1898
the Kingdom of Hawaii, including Palmyra Atoll, was annexed by
the US. |
| Johnston Atoll | Claimed
by both the US and the former Kingdom of Hawaii
in 1858. In 1909 Johnston was leased to a private citizen for
fifteen years by the Territory of Hawaii. |
| Navassa Island | Despite an earlier claim by Haiti, Navassa Island was annexed by US under an act of Congress, dated 18 August 1856 (48 U.S.C. 1411-1419, 11 Stat. 120). Haiti protested the annexation, but the US rejected the Haitian claim. Now part of USA. |
| Palmyra Atoll | Annexed
by US under an act of Congress, dated 18 August
1856 (48 U.S.C. 1411-1419, 11 Stat. 120). In 1862 Zenas Bent
and J.B. Wilkinson claimed the island for the Kingdom of
Hawaii and were granted rights to the property. In 1898 the
Kingdom of Hawaii, including Palmyra Atoll, was annexed by the
US, but the British had also claimed the island in 1889;
therefore in 1911 the US annexed Palmyra a second time. |
| Wake Island | First
placed on maps in the 19th century by John Arrowsmith, British
geographer and map publisher and nephew of cartographer Aaron
Arrowsmith. The official discovery of the island was made by
Captain William Wake in the British schooner Prince William Henry in
1796. During the Spanish-American war, Maj. Gen. Frances
Greene claimed the island for the US and in 1899 Comm. Edward
Taussig took formal possession of the island. Although it is
commonly thought that the subsequent peace treaty transferred
the atoll to the US, Wake was not specifically mentioned in
the 6th Treaty of Paris (ratified by US and Spanish Empire on 10
December 1898). Now part of USA. |
| United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) | Contains Baker, Howland and Jarvis islands, former British colonies (1858) and British Overseas Territories from 1886 to 1934; contains Johnston Atoll, former Kingdom of Hawaii (1858); contains Palmyra Atoll, which the British claimed in 1889; also contains Navassa and Wake islands, part of USA. |
NOTES
- The term Fourth World as used here refers to various peaceful secessionist or irrendentist movements, to medium- to large-sized nations without fully recognised states. While Fourth World nations need to have substantial territory compared to micronations (part of the Fifth and Sixth Worlds, which can have either very small territories, or be completely virtual), and are thus macronations, not micronations strictly-speaking, they need not be ancient nations (as required by the UNPO organisation), or part of any established international governmental organisations.
- These abbreviations are not ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (two-letter) or ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (three-letter) country codes used for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) but two- to five-letter abbreviations used in an alternative intercontinental root called the Cesidian Root.
- These abbreviations are ISO
3166-1 alpha-2 (two-letter) or ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (three-letter)
country codes used for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and
maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.