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A treaty signed by the United States and certain Latin American states. It was preceded and has been followed by other such attempts to define its stated subject matter, none of which has ever commanded general assent. Partly this is because some such alleged rights and duties are virtually self-evident; and partly – and more importantly – because of the difficulty of getting wide agreement on what rights and duties are basic.
The Convention is, however, often quoted for its statement that for a territorial entity to be an international person it needs a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. This last requirement, of course, is another way of referring to sovereignty (sense 1). |
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