Therefore, its recognition was important towards the Baltic states to their claim to state continuity.

United States Continuity of Operations facilities are spread throughout the country in various locations.

The monarch serves as a ceremonial figurehead symbol of national unity and state continuity.

On 11 March 1990 Lithuania was the first of the Baltic states to declare restoration of their independence, on the basis of state continuity.

Illegal Annexation and State Continuity: The Case of the Incorporation of Latvia by the USSR.

Later, during the Cold War, the Greenbrier served as the site of a secret Congressional bunker, built as part of the United States Continuity of Operations Plan.

State continuity of the Baltic states describes the continuity of the Baltic states as legal entities under international law while under Soviet rule and German occupation from 1940 to 1991.

The Baltic states also base their claim to state continuity on two additional rules; the prohibition of the use of force in international relations and the right to self-determination, as expressed in free and fair elections.

The three Baltic states restored their independence on the basis of state continuity; while the remaining 12 republics are deemed to have seceded from the Soviet Union and are thus referred to as the Newly Independent States (NIS).

Narochnitskaya was also an outspoken opponent of NATO intervention in former Yugoslavia and of NATO expansion, having called recognition of state continuity for the Baltics a ploy "to dilute the obstacles to the entry of parts of historic Russia into NATO."