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Democratic Legitimacy as a Criterion for Recognizing a Government: Towards the Emergence of a Regional Customary Rule in the Americas? A Reply to Professor Erika de Wet

Part of: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Vasiliki Saranti
Vasiliki Saranti*
Affiliation:
Hellenic Military Academy, National Police Academy, Panteion University
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Symposium: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 233 - 238
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

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2 Pact of the League of Arab States, Mar. 22, 1945, 70 UNTS 237.

3 Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, 1975 ICJ REP. 61 (Oct. 16).

4 Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicar. v. U.S.), 1986 ICJ REP. 14 (June 27).

5 Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, para. 94, 1975 ICJ REP. 61 (Oct. 16).

6 GA Res. A/51/761 (Dec. 20, 1996).

7 Treaty on European Union, art. VII, Feb. 7, 1992, 1992 O.J. 326.

8 African Union [AU], African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, Jan. 30, 2007.

9 Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS], Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, ECOWAS Doc. A/SP1/12/01 (Dec. 21, 2001).

10 SC Res. 940 (July 31, 1994).

11 SC Res. 1132 (Oct. 8, 1997).

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13 Organization of American States [OAS], Representative Democracy, AG/Res. 1080 (XXI-O/91) (June 5, 1991).

14 OAS, Protocol of Amendments to the Charter of the OAS, “Protocol of Washington”, A-56 (Dec. 14, 1992).

15 OAS, Inter-American Democratic Charter, Sept. 11, 2001.

16 Interpretation of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (Art. 64 American Convention on Human Rights), Advisory Opinion OC-10/89, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) paras. 43, 45 (July 14, 1989).

17 OAS, Annual Report of the Inter-American Juridical Committee to the General Assembly, OAS/Ser.Q/VI.32CJI/doc.79/01 (Aug. 24, 2001).

18 Id. at para. 40.

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21 Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicar. v. U.S.), 1986 ICJ Rep. 14 (June 27).

22 Id. at para. 188.

23 Id. at para. 192.

24 Asylum Case (Colom. v. Peru), 1950 ICJ Rep. 7 (Nov. 20).

25 Id.

26 OAS, Protocol of Amendments to the Charter of the OAS, “Protocol of Washington”, A-56 (Dec. 14, 1992).