Do without “assistants”

It just so happened that during discussions about the right of nations and peoples to self-determination, an insurmountable contradiction was laid down into the UN Charter… The right to self-determination conflicts here with the right to sovereignty and inviolability of state borders. To smooth out potential disputes, a number of international conventions were initiated and signed, that outlined reasonable limits for the use of the right to self-determination of peoples, that is, safeguards against separatism and civil wars were provided. As a condition, it was stipulated, for example, that it was peoples and nations who could fight for secession, and not just the population of a separate rebellious region of the country; that irrefutable facts of oppression in the development of the culture of the oppressed people should be documented, and that free development in this case can be achieved only by building a separate national state; that if a people already has a country where its national culture develops freely, then the issue can be resolved by moving to this country, and not by separating the area of residence into a separate state.
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