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Convention on Rights and Duties of States (Montevideo Convention), signed 26 December 1933

The Avalon Project, Yale Law School · 1933

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EstablishedThe 1933 Montevideo Convention lists four qualifications of a state as a person of international law (a permanent population, a defined territory, government, and capacity to enter into relations with other states) and declares that a state's political existence is independent of recognition.