Statehood

Question 1

Israel’s foreign minister

Answer 1

• Against opinion IC => status of Palestine
  “The criterion of statehood is not legitimacy but effectiveness”

Question 2

Art 1 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States

Answer 2

“The States, as a person of international alw should possess the following qualification : (a) a permanent population; (b) a definied territoy (c) government and (d) capacity to enter into relations with other states”

Question 3

Art 1 paragraph 2 UN Charter

Answer 3

Principle of State’s self-determination

Question 4

ICJ advisory opinion, 2010

Answer 4

Unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo = in accordance with international law

Question 5

Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia

Answer 5

"”State succession” means the replacement of one state by another in the responsibility for internationa lrelations of territory”

Question 6

ICJ advisory opinion, Western Sarah

Answer 6

Terrae Nullius principle = not established if already socially and politically organized people

Question 7

Resolution 1514 General Assembly

Answer 7

Colonies = right to self-determination