Decolonization
Post–Cold War era

Decolonization

Section Title: Post–Cold War era
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Year	Colonizer	Decolonized state	Event

1993	Ethiopia	Eritrea	Eritrea, a former Italian colony declares independence and is subsequently recognized.

1994	United States	Palau	Palau (after a transitional period as a Republic since 1981, and before part of the U.S. Trust territory of the Pacific) becomes independent from its former trustee, having been a mandate of the Japanese Empire before UN trusteeship.

1997	United Kingdom	Hong Kong	The British overseas territory of Hong Kong is given to People's Republic of China.

1999	Portugal	Macau	Macau is given to People's Republic of China. It is the last in a series of coastal enclaves that militarily stronger powers had obtained through treaties from the Ming and Qing Empire which ruled China.

2002	Indonesia	East Timor	East Timor formally achieves independence after a transitional UN administration, three years after Indonesia ended its quarter-century occupation of the former Portuguese colony.

2006	Serbia and Montenegro	Montenegro

2011	Sudan	South Sudan	South Sudan formally achieves independence.

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Eritrea became an independent country in 1993 from Ethiopia.

final_sentence: Eritrea became an independent country in 1993 from Ethiopia.