Quote : The legal methods for resolving questions of sovereignty are founded on widely recognized principles of international law. These do not include, and have never included, a simple referendum of people living in a contested territory. That is why every successful secessionist movement has founded its claim on legal entitlement to the territory that they seek to “liberate”. Thus the Baltic states argued that they were illegally conquered by the Soviet Union; Tibet says the same about China; and Eritreans fought for decades to reverse their illegal annexation by Ethiopia. : End quote What happens (perhaps while we get drunk at the St. Patricks Day Parade) - e.g., the referendum in Crimea - could send shock waves through Québecs independence movement. At least, its enough fall-out to make rue Ste-Cathérine look like some ruelle en arrière dun shed dans la Pointe. (Good, bad or indifferent, worldviews are changing about the very meaning of sovereignty. Official United States diplomatic positions will shift against self-determination via referenda.)
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:05:18 +0000
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