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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
* [Editor’s note: Maureen Williams is currently the chair of the Space Law Committee of the International Law Association (London).]
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6 Mavrommatis Jerusalem Concessions (UK v. Greece), 1925 PCIJ (ser. A) No. 5, at 31–32 (Mar. 26).
7 Palestine is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77, the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies, and the International Trade Union Confederation.
8 Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, Dec. 26, 1933, 165 LNTS 19, reprinted in 28 AJIL. Supp. 75 (1934).
9 Id., Art. 3 (emphasis added).
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13 Id. at 437.
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15 Island of Palmas (Neth./U.S.), 2 R.I.A.A. 829 (Perm. Ct. Arb. 1928).
16 Report of the International Committee of Jurists Entrusted by the Council of the League of Nations with the Task of Giving an Advisory Opinion upon the Legal Aspects of the Aaland Islands Question, League of Nations O.J. Spec. Supp. 3, 8–9 (1920).
17 See Crawford, supra note 11, at 291–92
18 Quigley is correct to conclude that Article 80 covered mandates, although it might have been prudent for him to refer to the travaux préparatoires to buttress his argument. See 10 UNCIO Docs. 477 (1945).
19 See, e.g., Eugene V. Rostow, “Palestinian Self-Determination “: Possible Futures for Unallocated Territories of the Palestine Mandate, 5 Yale Stud. World Pub. Ord. 147, 154–62 (1979).
20 See Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, GA Res. 1514 (XV) (Dec. 14, 1960).
21 See Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ Rep. 136, 184, para. 121 (July 9).
22 Id. at 184, para. 122.
23 Id. at 199, paras. 155–56.
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28 2 The Charter of The United Nations: a Commentary 1121 (Bruno Simma ed., 2002).
29 UN Doc. A/C.1/277 (Apr. 20, 1948).
30 See Council of the European Union Press Release No. 17835/10, at 14, para. 5 (Dec. 13, 2010), at http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/118456.pdf.
31 European Community Declaration on Yugoslavia and on the Guidelines on the Recognition of New States, Opinion No. 1, 92 ILR 162 (1991), 31 ILM 1494, 1495 (1992).
32 An updated list is available online at http://www.kosovothanksyou.com/.
33 The United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia comprise the “Quartet.”
34 SC Res. 1515, para. 1 (Nov. 19, 2003).
35 See U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release, Roadmap to Solution of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Apr. 30, 2003), at http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2003/April/20030430134837relhcie0.3930475.html.
36 Id.
37 See Natasha, Mozgovaya, U.S. House Opposes Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian State, Haaretz, Dec. 8, 2010, available at http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-house-opposes-unilateral-declaration-of-palestinian-state-1.330922.Google Scholar
