U.S. Recognition of Turkmenistan, 1991. The United States recognized Turkmenistanâs independence on December 25, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush announced the decision in an address to the nation regarding the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Turkmenistan previously had been a constituent republic of the USSR.
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Similar legislation was also passed in most of the other Commonwealth countries. The Act formed the basis of the United Kingdom's nationality law until the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force in 1983.However, the concept of a common Commonwealth citizenship had already been progressively eroded from 1962 onwards by British legislation targeted against non-White Commonwealth immigrants.roadly speaking, nationals of the United Kingdom, the Dominions, and the various British colonies had always shared a common citizenship status of British subject. However, in 1946 the Canadian parliament passed the Canadian Citizenship Act, which established a separate Canadian citizenship.