Pegando no link que ferrol aqui colocou acerca dos “territórios não –autónomos”, feito pela ONU, constato que em África, o único território considerado “não autónomo” é o Sahara Ocidental, abandonado por Espanha em 1975 e seguidamente “dividido” por Marrocos e Mauritânea.
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonization/trust3.htm
Territory Administration Area (sq.km.) Population 1
AFRICA
Western Sahara 2 266,000 3
ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN
Anguilla United Kingdom 96 11,960
Bermuda United Kingdom 53 6,997
British Virgin Islands United Kingdom 153 23,000
Cayman Islands United Kingdom 260 39,410
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) United Kingdom 11,961 2,391
Montserrat United Kingdom 98 5,000
St. Helena United Kingdom 122 6,000
Turks and Caicos Islands United Kingdom 430 24,000
United States Virgin Islands United States 340 108,612
EUROPE
Gibraltar United Kingdom 6 26,703
PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS
American Samoa United States 197 57,291
Guam United States 549 154,805
New Caledonia 4 France 35,853 215,904
Pitcairn United Kingdom 5 46
Tokelau New Zealand 10 1,518
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1. From estimates or censuses cited in United Nations documents issued in 2002.
2. On 26 February 1976, Spain informed the Secretary-General that as of that date it had terminated its presence in the Territory of the Sahara and deemed it necessary to place on record that Spain considered itself thenceforth exempt from any responsibility of any international nature in connection with the administration of the Territory, in view of the cessation of its participation in the temporary administration established for the Territory. In 1990, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the question of Western Sahara was a question of decolonization which remained to be completed by the people of Western Sahara.
3. Not available.
4. On 2 December 1986, the General Assembly determined that New Caledonia was a Non-Self-Governing Territory.
Sobre os enclaves de Ceuta (e Melilha) nem uma palavra...e pelo pouco que sei, principalmente através da comunicação social, Marrocos proclama o desejo de integração desses 2 territórios no seu País---veja-se a crise envolvendo os rochedos de Perejil...
(um aparte: mais uma vez se assiste á dualidade de critérios...Marrocos exige um território ao mesmo tempo que ocupa ilegalmente outro---tal como Espanha em relação a Gibraltar e Olivença...mas isso está em debate noutro tópico)
Voltando-me exclusivamente para a situação de Ceuta, território português até 1640, data da Restauração, em que pelo que saibo, foi o ÚNICO território do então Império Português que preferiu continuar ligado ao regime dos Felipes (basta ver que até hoje, a bandeira de Ceuta continua a manter como Armas o ESCUDO PORTUGUÊS (mudaram apenas a posição de um dos castelos da parte superior para a parte inferior do escudo), encimado por uma coroa “castelhana” e tendo como fundo as cores idênticas (preto e branco) às da cidade de Lisboa.
(Pelos vistos a imaginação espanhola não chega para mudar uma bandeira...ou então se calhar é mais uma “provocaçãozita”...)
Do Site “Flags Of The World”
Ceuta (Spain)
Autonomous City of Ceuta, Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta
Spain still owns Ceuta and Melilla, two enclaves in North Africa, as well as some tiny islands in the Mediterranean [the so-called Plazas de Soberanía en el Norte de África]. Spain decided in 1995 to give the status of Autonomous Community to those two territories, creating tension with Morocco who wants to take these over.
Ceuta was the first or one of the first conquests in the very beginning of the Portuguese expansion (1415). It remained Portuguese for over two centuries, having been lost to Spain in 1640, after the Restoration, the recovery of Portuguese independence. Even during the period of Philippine domination (1580-1640) [Kings Phillip II, III and IV], Ceuta was formally part of the Kingdom of Portugal
Description
The flag of Ceuta is a gironny of 8 black and white with the arms of Portugal in an escutcheon. The flag of Ceuta is similar to many town flags in Portugal, reminding the fact that Ceuta was formerly a Portuguese possession.
Ilídio Rafael, 10 May 1996
The flag, black over white gironny (exactly like the Lisbon flag), shows the Portuguese heritage, since Ceuta was Portuguese territory from 1430 up to 1640 when Spain kept it along with Equatorial Guinea etc.
António Martins, 18 June 1997
The coat of arms is not precisely identical to the Portuguese, since the bordure is charged with towers and not castles, and these are arranged 2+2+2+1, instead of 3+2+2. Naturally, this does not override the relationship between both flags, but rather illustrates the diverging path of a pattern nowadays to be followed strictly, but based on a particular instance from a time where heraldic accuracy was much more loose than today...
António Martins, 15 August 1999
The first flag flown in Ceuta by the Portuguese troops, when they conquered the city to the moors in 1415, was the flag of the city of Lisbon (also called the flag of St. Vincent for the patron saint of the city). To celebrate this, the flag of Ceuta became the same as that of Lisbon (gyronny white and black).
The coat-of-arms of Ceuta is that of Portugal with a small difference: the seventh castle is on the bottom and not on the centre top of the bordure of the shield. This follows an ancient habit of some portuguese cities and towns (specially those in isolated places like the borders or overseas) to adopt the coat-of-arms of Portugal as their own, with differences that may appear within the shield (like in the case of Ceuta) or in the outside ornaments (for example the former coat-of-arms of Macau). Another reason for the adoption of the portuguese coat-of-arms (with that small difference) as that of Ceuta is the simbolic importance that the city had for Portugal since it was the first overseas conquest of the nation and it marked the beginning of worldwide portuguese sea expansion.
Like in portuguese cities, in the present there are two official versions for the flag of Ceuta, one with the city coat-of-arms in the centre of the gyronny field and another without it. Both versions can be seen flying in several places of the city.
José J. Xambre Sobral, 23 August 2000
Flag Variant
Interessante a posição da própria ONU, com dois pesos e duas medidas...mas como não estou a par de todo o processo, não me quero alongar sobre algo que não domino. Apenas acho curioso...mas neste mundo de hoje tudo é possivel.
Bom...continuando o meu raciocinio...já que Espanha considera seu território Ceuta e também Gibraltar (por efeitos de antiguidade)...não devia Espanha DEVOLVER Ceuta a Portugal, para este resolver então a situação da descolonização de Ceuta com Marrocos (Já que , em termos históricos de efeitos de antiguidade, Portugal também devia reclamar o retorno de Ceuta como parte integrante do seu território...tal como Timor-Leste, que entre Dezembro de 1975 e a Indepêndencia em 2001 foi sempre considerado Território Português sob Ocupação Estrangeira)
Deixo aqui o “mote” para uma discussão saudável entre os colegas do Forum...apreciaria especialmente esclarecimentos dos colegas que estão a par de Leis Jurídicas sobre estes assuntos...
Cumprimentos.