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You said that according to Lawson and Sloane, Resolution 567 referred to ""“self-determination” as a minority in a nation-state"".  The link I provided to the resolution shows that it says no such thing and Lawson and Sloane do not make that claim.  Perhaps you were confusing the resolution with something else.  And I did not say ""a territory cannot exist"" in a nation-state or a federal republic.  Clearly it can as an ""incorporated territory.""  Both Canada and Australia have incorporated territories for example.  (Although they are not technically ""republics"".)  Obviously if a country has territories, it will exercise some degree of jurisdiction over them and may allow them some degree of self-government, but that does not incorporate them.    "