This time the response has been: Get your act together - a serious state doesn't make itself vulnerable by letting armed fighters use its territory.

There was no evidence, however, that they were using their newly-won territory to prepare an all-out assault on the city center.

Until last year, the Government strenuously denied that it had allowed the rebels to use its territory.

Never again will we allow foreigners to use our territory for their purposes.

Today, even Turkey seemed to flinch rather than allow the United States to use its territory for war.

Laos would not allow foreign military forces to use or occupy its territory.

These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in and out of Iraq.

Our enemy is the foreigners, the Al Qaeda, because they have used our territory for terrorism.

"Brazil is being threatened in its sovereign right to use, exploit and administer its territory," the President said.

The Slovaks also agreed to allow Germany to use its territory as the staging area for its troops.