PO333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Montevideo Convention
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Montevideo convention on the rights and duties of states (1933) The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: D) capacity to enter into relations with other states. States are juridically equal, enjoy the same rights, and have equal capacity in their exer- cise. The rights of each one do not depend upon the power which it possesses to assure its exercise, but upon the simple fact of its existence as a person under international law. No state has the right to intervene in the internal to external affairs of another. The jurisdiction of states within the limits of national territory applies to all the inhabitants. The political existence of the state is independent. The political existence of the state is independent of recognition by the other states. The exercise of these rights has no other limitation than the exercise of the rights of the other states according to international law.
