Is There A Right To Secede?

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.