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Curacao residents vote to leave Netherlands Antilles, St. Eustatius residents opt to remain
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MARVIN HOKSTAM, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-09-2005
Dateline: PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten
Residents in the Dutch Caribbean territory of Curacao overwhelmingly voted in a nonbinding referendum to break away from the Netherlands Antilles and become an autonomous country within the Netherlands.
But residents in the island of St. Eustatius voted to remain in the Netherlands Antilles, a federation of five Dutch Caribbean islands administered by a government in Curacao. The result of Friday's nonbinding referendum in St. Eustatius complicates efforts in the other four islands to dissolve ...
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