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Abstract

The overwhelming view concerning the unilateral secession under
contemporary international law is that, in international law, there is no rule in
regard to secession. some international lawyers concentrate upon the principle
of respect to territorial integrity of independence and sovereign states and
maintain that unilateral secession is unlawful. Meanwhile a moderate and
relatively new approach has been proposed by some international lawyers so
called “Remedial Secession Doctrine” that according to it, although
international law supports territorial integrity of independence and sovereign
states in international community, in special circumstances, a state cannot rely
on its territorial integrity. The principle of Self-Determination of peoples
prevails over Territorial Integrity and so, secession of a part of territory of a
state by a people comprising a part of the population of the territory would be
possible. Basis and foundation of such argument is relies on inverted reading of
the “safeguard clause” embodied in the United Nations General Assembly
resolution 2625 that repeated in 1993 Vienna declaration and program of
action. this characterize the existence of the Right to Remedial Secession in
National and Regional Judicial Decisions.

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