Who establishes...
Who establishes the parameters according to which decisions are made, who can be considered a state or not?
The rules were established by the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, a treaty signed in Montevideo (Uruguay) on December 26, 1933, on the occasion of the VII International Conference of American States. Obviously, many unrecognized nations have not ratified it, an often recurring phenomenon due to the will and interests of the great powers.
At this Conference, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed what is commonly known as the "Good Neighbor Policy," which prevented the intervention of the U.S. military in the internal affairs of other American states.
This was the first diplomatic attempt at a "Good Neighbor Policy" aimed at reversing the course of "U.S. imperialist" expansion, determined by the policies carried out by his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt.
The Convention was signed by 19 States (3 with reservations).
Article No. 1 is the best known, and is the one that establishes four fundamental rules for the signatory States, relevant rules for the purpose of assuming international legal personality, namely the simultaneous presence of:
- A permanent population
- A defined territory
- Government
- Capacity to enter into relations with the other states
Furthermore, the first paragraph of the third article explicitly states that the political existence of a state is independent of the recognition of other states. Switzerland endorses some of these principles, but also states that "a political entity does not need to be recognized to become a state, nor does it have the obligation to recognize another. Being recognized is not a sufficient requirement for founding a state, nor does absence abolish it."
A group (including several Italians) of intellectuals, lawyers, economists, diplomats, journalists, ecologists, doctors and poets, have dared to challenge the great world states, and with Shakespearean principles, they have given life to a "daring new world" by claiming from the United Nations, on the basis of historical reasons, a state in the ice of Antarctica.
The Government of Antarcticland is structuring its Government with the composition of the Secretaries of State, including the one designated for Education, which will lead to the creation of the Universities established in the State of Antarcticland and the various Principalities adhering to the Union of the Southern Lands, and to the dissemination of education electronically, for all citizens, through strategic alliances.
The national anthem of the State of Antarcticland has been composed, which in a masterful way, interprets the chivalrous and libertarian sentiments of Antarcticland and the adhering states. It will be disseminated through the YouTube channel, and through the internet, the State tends to constantly and regularly view the developments, relationships, culture, environmental problems of the country in the world.
At diplomatic level, unfortunately, we have to note that despite the efforts made since the beginning of the year, and this due to errors of judgment on the part of people and international pressure, difficulties have been encountered. To amend this policy, the Secretary of State who holds the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has been merged with the Presidency and the Government, radical restructuring is underway. The work ahead of us will be quite hard and complex, but we are confident about the success of the initiatives in place.
We are also defining a new model of international relations, to be adopted through an innovative definition of nation and state. A development of commercial relations is underway, so all entrepreneurs, financial companies, banks, governments, consulates, embassies and all interested parties are invited to register with the Chamber of Commerce of the C.C.S.World States. It is important to identify new international actors to circumvent the schemes imposed by the usual great powers. As Albert Einstein said: "Nationalism is an infirmity of childhood and a bestiality of humanity".
In the environmental field, it will be necessary to create a new protocol as an alternative to the failed Kyoto protocol, and the Antarcticland Government will promote it.
In the field of tourism it is necessary to find investors to carry out the project for the construction of the "Ice Hotels", and to develop a stable tourist flow; however, agreements and conventions are in place with important tour operators and tourist agencies. Given the huge investments required, we expect positive developments only for 2014, also through the return of image that we will obtain with the Antarcticland Rally, in on the occasion of the centenary of the discovery of the South Pole.
The restructuring of the State of Antarcticland and the Associated Principalities is underway. Thanks to the historical research carried out on the Ice Knights by Fabian Gottlieb (which can be found in various Wikipedia pages) we are concluding strategic alliances with the Order of the Knights of Malta in exile, and with the Federation of the Crusader Knights of Damascus, and other Principalities.