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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37 recognised the right of the Western Sahara people to self-determination and recognised also the Polisario Front as the representative of the Western Sahara people. [99] Western Sahara is listed on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories.
Declared independence in 1975; Indonesia invaded and occupied the territory, declaring it the country's 27th province. The United Nations did not recognize the annexation or the declaration of independence and made Portugal the legal administrating power. Free Lebanon State: 1979–1984 Now part of Lebanon
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
China is not recognised by 12 UN member states and the Holy See, which, with the exception of Bhutan, all recognise Taiwan instead. [r] China, Republic of → See Taiwan listing Cyprus – Republic of Cyprus UN member state Not recognised by Turkey [20] Member of the EU. [c] The northeastern part of the island is the de facto state of Northern ...
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
This category includes former countries that were not recognized, or largely-unrecognized, as sovereign states. ... Republic of Canada; Republic of Crimea (Russia)
List of active autonomist and secessionist movements, representing those nations which are currently part of a transnational state but would like to secede from the state. List of unrecognized states , representing those states which have declared independence, but whose independence has not been recognised by the majority of the international ...