Summary probleem 1 Introduction to International and European Union Law

Problem 1 IEL
1. What is (internal and external) self-determination and what are the conditions
thereof?
The right to self-determination- stipulates that all peoples have a right to freely determine
their political status and pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
The right is found in a number of instruments, including art.1 of the UN Charter and
resolutions from the General Assembly.
The right to self-determination is an essential principle of international law that has an erga
omnes character  rights and obligations that count for everyone.



Before 1945 the
International Committee of
Jurists stated that
international law
does not recognize the
right for national groups to
separate themselves from
the State of which they
form by the simple
expression of a wish. After
that period of time a lot of
states depended on self-

, determination in order to
acquire their own
independent states (within
this matter the General
Assembly Declaration on
the Granting of
Independence to Colonial
Countries and People
mattered
most).
Examples of the emerging
of self-determination is
after the end of the Cold
War following the
collapse of the Soviet
Union and the chaotic
disintegration of the