What Are The Criteria For A State To Exercise The Right of Individual or Collective Self-Defense?
What Are The Criteria For A State To Exercise The Right of Individual or Collective Self-Defense?
What Are The Criteria For A State To Exercise The Right of Individual or Collective Self-Defense?
1. What are the criteria for a State to exercise the right of individual or
collective self-defense?
(1) A State must have been the victim of an armed attack;
(2) This State must declare itself as a victim of an armed attack; and
(3) In the case of collective self-defense the victim State must request for
assistance
(4) The absence of a report may be one of the factors indicating whether the State
in question was itself convinced that it was acting in self-defense
2. Are the MNLF and MILF Insurgents?
No. The MNLF and MILF are not insurgents, because they do not satisfy the Material
Field Application of Protocol II, which is to posssess definite form of international
personality by (1) being recognized as having belligerent status against the state
(2) seen as having treaty making capacity.
3. What are the Principal Organs of the UN?
Principal Organs of the UN:
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General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
Trusteeship Council
Secretariat
ICJ
Regional Organizations (ASEAN