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On 8 October 2008 (resolution 63/3), the General Assembly decided to ask the Court to render an advisory opinion on the following question : “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law ?” Thirty-six Member States of the United Nations filed written statements and the authors of the The UK Parliament has implemented this obligation by adopting the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which makes the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain expressly dependent on the consent of the majority of the people in Northern Ireland and provides for the holding of a referendum if at any time it appears likely to the Secretary of State that THE HAGUE, 9 October 2009. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will hold public hearings on the question of the Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo (request for advisory opinion) from Tuesday 1 December to Friday 11 December 2009, at During this period, Ulster Unionists sought to resist nationalist and republican arguments for the unification of Ireland and to articulate their position to supporters and wider audiences. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE REQUEST FOR ADVISORY OPINION ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE PROVISIONAL INSTITIJTIONS OF SELF-GOVERNMENT OF Kosovo STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND 17 APRIL 2009 Introduction l. While recent unionist protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol in the context of Brexit has not seen a revival of calls for Ulster Independence, the fundamental themes of constitutional insecurity and perceived British untrustworthiness that accompanied Northern Ireland’s foundation still resonate. Sectarian division had reached such a point that loyalist paramilitaries were also establishing "no-go areas" in North Belfast and some hardline unionist politicians were actively talking about a Having received with respect the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of 22 July 2010 on the Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in respect of Kosovo1 and having studied it with great care, including the issues on which the opinion was rendered, 1. A unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) or "unilateral secession" is a formal process leading to the establishment of a new state by a subnational entity which declares itself independent and sovereign without a formal agreement with the state from which it is seceding. The term was first used when Rhodesia declared independence in 1965 from the United Kingdom (UK) without an agreement Editor’s note: On January 21, 1919, the Assembly of Ireland both initiated a War of Independence (“ Cogadh na Saoirse ” in Irish) against British forces and issued a formal declaration of independence. The guerrilla campaign ended almost 2 1/2 years later with the ceasefire in July 21, followed by the Anglo-Irish Treaty on December 6, 1921. With the treaty, British rule came to an end in During the medieval period, any provincial governor of a sovereign state could make a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) and become the ruler of an independent and separate state In the early 1970s, in the face of the British government prorogation of the government of Northern Ireland, Craig, Lindsay and others argued in favour of a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from Great Britain similar to that declared in Rhodesia a few years previously. Define unilateral Declaration. means the declaration by Her Majesty’s Government concerning the operation of the ‘Democratic consent in Northern Ireland’ provision of the Protocol made on 17 October 2019. Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was a statement adopted by the Cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Rhodesia (previously Southern Rhodesia), [n 1] a British crown colony in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923, now regarded itself as an independent sovereign state. In theory, Scotland could attempt to declare unilateral independence, but doing so would likely face significant legal, political, and practical challenges. The United Kingdom is a sovereign state composed of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The UK's constitutional framework does not provide a clear legal path for a unilateral declaration of independence by one 54 General A8sembly-Twentieth Session Noting the attitude of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that a unilateral declaration of independence for Southern Rhodesia would be an act of rebellion and that any measure to give it effect would be an act of treason, 1. A declaration of independence following the consensual secession of territory being uncontentious under both international and national law, the chapter focuses exclusively on unilateral declarations of independence. This analogy led to an overestimation of the likelihood of a unilateral declaration of independence occurring in Northern Ireland. When the flawed nature of this thinking was exposed, it marked a settling of British understandings of the conflict in Northern Ireland as a peculiar place apart, with the British state as a neutral participant He argues that rather than being the expression of Ulster nationalism or a contractarian understanding of political obligation, Unionist arguments for independence were motivated by a classical republican concern: the arbitrary power Northern Ireland is subject to as part of the United Kingdom. - Resolution 1244 (1999) establishes obligations with respect to the territorial integrity of Serbia which were breached by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. In support, it is said that the past practice of the Security Council shows that Resolution 1244 (1999) precluded independence as an option for final status in Kosovo.21 -
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