Can countries select ANY code letters they desire ?

"Can countries select ANY code letters they desire ? ...since, according to the NEW IANA, it is "not in the business of deciding...what code letters are appropriate for a particular country" @@@@@ http://www.iana.org/cctld.html "The codes IANA uses are two-letter codes from the ISO 3166 standard. IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country, nor what code letters are appropriate for a particular country." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://207.32.159.1 1998 - The Year of the C+@ IS Coordinator for the AM Radio Station Registry - http://www.DOT.AM -------- Logged at Tue Jun 9 14:00:23 MET DST 1998 ---------