Diplomatic recognition
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Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral political act with domestic and international legal consequences, whereby a state acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state). Recognition can be accorded either de facto or de jure. Recognition can be a declaration to that effect by the recognizing government, or an act of recognition such as entering into a treaty with the other state. A vote by a country in the United Nations in favour of the membership of another country is an implicit recognition of that country by the country so voting, as only states may be members of the UN.
The non-recognition of particular acts of a state does not normally effect the recognition of the state itself. For example, the international rejection of the occupation of particular territory by a recognised state does not imply non-recognition of the state itself, nor a rejection of a change of government by illegal means.
See also
- Constitutive theory of statehood
- Declarative theory of statehood
- Diplomacy
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- International relations
- Jus legationis
- List of states with limited recognition
- Micronation
- Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations
- Decolonization
- Diplomatic recognition
- Exclusive mandate
- Frozen conflict
- Gallery of sovereign state flags
- Government in exile
- Irredentism
- List of civil wars
- List of current heads of state of states with limited recognition
- List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies
- List of micronations
- List of modern proto-states
- List of rebel groups that control territory
- List of sovereign states
- List of territorial disputes
- Nation state
- Rump state
- Self-determination
- Separatism
- Sovereignty
- Territorial dispute
- Territorial integrity
- Unilateral declaration of independence
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization