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Endorsement by the President of Estonia

Endorsement by the President of Estonia The Constitution ojthe Republic of Estonia that was adopted on 28 July 1992 states that the Republic of Estonia '...is established on the inextinguishable right of the people of Estonia to national self-determination and ... proclaimed on 24 February 1918...'. 1. The conviction of the people in Estonia that this must be the wording of the first sentence of the Estonian Constitution in the year 1992 proceeded from international law. The people of Estonia drew their faith in the uninterrupted continuity of their State from the underlying principles of international law. The principle known under the name of non-recognition policy, stating that nations shall not recognise any kind of administrative or territorial changes that have been implemented by violent means, had acquired the greatest importance for Estonia during the five decades of occupation. This so-called Stimson Doctrine changed nothing in the second half of the 1930s, when it was first applied to China and Manchuria in connection with Japan's aggression against China. The representatives of Japan simply left the session of the League of Nations where the majority approved of the non-recognition policy. In 1940, when the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic countries, the United States of America http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online Brill

Endorsement by the President of Estonia

Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online , Volume 1 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 2001
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The Constitution ojthe Republic of Estonia that was adopted on 28 July 1992 states that the Republic of Estonia '...is established on the inextinguishable right of the people of Estonia to national self-determination and ... proclaimed on 24 February 1918...'. 1. The conviction of the people in Estonia that this must be the wording of the first sentence of the Estonian Constitution in the year 1992 proceeded from international law. The people of Estonia drew their faith in the uninterrupted continuity of their State from the underlying principles of international law. The principle known under the name of non-recognition policy, stating that nations shall not recognise any kind of administrative or territorial changes that have been implemented by violent means, had acquired the greatest importance for Estonia during the five decades of occupation. This so-called Stimson Doctrine changed nothing in the second half of the 1930s, when it was first applied to China and Manchuria in connection with Japan's aggression against China. The representatives of Japan simply left the session of the League of Nations where the majority approved of the non-recognition policy. In 1940, when the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic countries, the United States of America

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