Is There A Right To Secede?

'Twas Georgia's sovereign right to secede from the Union!

Similarly, any move by Bosnia s Serb Republic to secede could incite instability there.

I think a regional level has a far greater propensity to secede than a local level.

There have been some attempts over the years by some of the mini states to secede from Cairo.

Lastly, no part of the national territory whether a region, state or self administered zone could ever secede from the State.

His long term policy seems clear to place his Serb entity, Republika Srpska, in a position to secede if the opportunity arises.

He explained that, in Casamance, separatist movements had wanted to secede, something that Senegal, like any other country, clearly could not accept.

Moreover, the Court noted the radically different views expressed before it on whether self determination in international law implies a unilateral right to secede.

Indeed, if not convincingly deterred by the international community, it is extremely difficult to believe that Bashir would let the South secede without a fight.

The judges contrasted their opinion with that handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada when it was asked to rule on Quebec s right to secede unilaterally.

Somalia said the principle of national self determination should allow Somalis in northeastern Kenya (and in the southern Ethiopia) to secede, because they were one Somali nation.

Those resolutions rendered any dispute over the State to which Nagorno Karabakh belonged, or the right of its population to secede, a completely futile and senseless exercise.

Even though that operation does not indicate an immediate will to secede, it nevertheless reveals that the Forces nouvelles believe that this will be a long term crisis.

Similarly, when eastern Nigeria decided it wanted to secede and form the state of Biafra in the 1960s, other Nigerians resisted, in part because Biafra included most of Nigeria s oil.

The newly independent State soon had to face attempts to secede on the part of the region of South Ossetia, the majority of whose population wished to become part of the Russian Federation.

Bolivia s Santa Cruz business community may not carry out its threat to secede, but will they prefer to share their region s oil and gas reserves with the indigenous highland peoples rather than with Brazilian industrialists from São Paulo?

This region expressed its desire to secede from the Republic of Moldova, bringing about a serious armed conflict between the armed forces of the Republic of Moldova and the secessionist forces of the so called Trans Dniester Republic.

If a majority of the voters in a distinct region of a country favor independence, does that mean that they have a right to secede? There are surely more questions that need to be addressed than that single one.

By acknowledging the range and intensity of disagreement among states on a right to secede, the Court seems to have hinted that the necessary consent of the world community does not exist to establish firmly the existence of any such right.

Similarly, when eastern Nigeria decided it wanted to secede and form the state of Biafra in the 1960s, other Nigerians resisted, in part because Biafra included most of Nigeria s oil. They argued that the oil belonged to all of Nigeria s people, not just the eastern area.

The proper meaning and effect, and proper application of the principle of territorial integrity in relation to the principle of self determination was that the principle of self determination was not available to the peoples of part of an existing country to enable them to secede from it.

42. It was well known that self determination that did not automatically mean the right to secede or establish an independent State and, in that connection, mention should be made of the statement by the Secretary General in paragraph 19 of his report quot An Agenda for Peace quot .