He also rejected North Korean participation in COMECON so as to not end up a Soviet economic colony.

The Tashkent Soviet of Soldiers' and Workers' Deputies, an organization dominated by Russian railway workers and colonial proletarians, rejected Muslim participation in government.

Finland at the time was only officially allied with Estonia, as Sweden had rejected participation in the anti-Soviet alliance.

Rwandan rebels have rejected French military participation in a UN force in the country because of its role in training and arming government troops, a spokesman said in Brussels.

But when a crisis erupts, there is nothing automatic about the commitment, since governments can choose to reject participation, as dozens did in Rwanda.

But the Bush administration has made clear its impatience with international law by rejecting American participation in the International Criminal Court.

We do not reject participation by women in the labour process, but an enforced gender distribution according to numbers does not do justice to reality.

(SV) In a referendum, the people of Sweden rejected participation in economic and monetary union by a broad majority.

Feb. 6, 1990: the opposition party U.D.K. rejects participation in the Government.

The party had rejected political participation through balloting and advocated violent resistance to U.S. governance.