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STATEHOOD Marta Statkiewicz Department of International and European Law Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics University of Wrocław

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STATEHOOD

Marta Statkiewicz

Department of International and European Law

Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics

University of Wrocław

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STATEHOOD

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STATEHOOD

INDEPENDENCYSOVEREIGNITY

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ELEMENTS OF STATEHOOD

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ELEMENTS OF STATEHOOD

Art. 1 of the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of the States, 1933

The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications:

a) a permanent population;

b) a defined territory;

c) government;

d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.

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ELEMENTS OF STATEHOOD

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TERRITORY

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TERRITORY

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POPULATION

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EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT

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CAPACITY TO ENTER INTO RELATIONS

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RECOGNITION OF STATES

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UNILATERAL ACTS OF STATES

1. PROTEST – unilateral declaration designed to object to an act or action performer by another State;

its purpose and legal effect is to show that the protesting State does not recognize, accept, or acquiesce in the act or

action; or preserves te right to challenge that act or action

2. RECOGNITION (of act or conduct) – unilateral transaction (or, in the case of tactit or implicit recognition, conduct) aimed atconsidering as legitimate that situation or conduct

its legal effect is to bar the recognizing State from subsequently challenging what had been previously recognized

3. RENUNCIATION – willing unilateral abandoment of a right, which is deliarate and clear (although it may be explicit or tacit)

4. NOTIFICATION - act by which State makes other States informed of a certain action it has performed

its legal effect is to preclude the other States from subsequently claiming that, not knowing the action notified, they were

entitled to behave differently

5. PROMISE – unilateral declaration by which a State undertakes to behave in a certaint manner

it establishes a new rule binding the promising State toward one or more States

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explicit

de iure

individual

de facto

implied

collective

RECOGNITION

political (subjective)

deleyedpremature

legal (objective)

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RECOGNITION OF STATES

CONSTITUTITVE DECLARATORY

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ROLE OF THE RECOGNITION OF STATES

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ROLE OF THE RECOGNITION OF STATES

I. testifies the will of recognizing State to initiate international interactions with the new State

II. proves that the recognizing State consider that in their view the new entityfulfils alll the factual conditions considered necessary for becoming aninternational subject

III. once granted, it bars the recognizing State from altering its position and claiming that the new entitiy lacks statehood

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