The universal declaration of human rights adopted by the General
Assembly of the United Nations Organization in 1948 laid the basis for support
of people rights to self- determination. Over the following 48 years a
multitude of documents and resolutions has been worked out and adopted to
define the principles of the international right to questions of setting up a
sovereign, and independent state due to a free vote of a nation. This right
is, legitimate if a nation suffers from exploitation, and its basic national,
religious or any other rights are deprived in contradiction with the UN
Charter. Any nation in pursuit of self- determination should be
supported by such important world legal principles as (a) the historical right
of a nation who seeks self determination to the given territory, (b) the
evidence of genocide or ethnocide on the part of a ruling nation and/or its
government, (c) the unanimity of the entire nation in pursuit of
self-determination, and (d) its capability of political self control and
economic independence.
I believe there is nobody who will be able to argue that the Assyrian
nation has, the right to North Mesopotamia. Facts of ethnocide from all forms
of the artificial Iraqi political regime have many times been documented and
discussed. It is clear that this substitute State created by the British
colonial system on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire cannot be a long-term
formation. Full harmony, peace and tranquility will be maintained on condition
that all interests of every nation in such a disruptive region as Middle East
will be taken into consideration. Besides, those interests should be based on
a real possibility of self - determination, unanimity of the people in their
pursuit irrespective of political, tribal or confessional diversity.
It is a pity that the current UN policy is based on a double moral and
legal principle of working out conflicts, hot bed issues and even world
crises. In the absence of a thoughtful legal approach to the problem of the
rights of nations to self-determination the UNO loses somewhat its authority,
which is so instrumental in its development in pursuit of peace and prosperity
of all nations in the world.
The twentieth century has revealed an unprecedented strive for
diversity. It has already featured a collapse of the colonial system and two
world wars, which brought about over a hundred new independent states. This
tendency is firm and steady, and the world community should work towards
transformation of struggle for diversity into the process of unification of
diversities. The 21st century must give a world without wars. So
people should then work towards unanimity in understanding of the importance
of further forms of diversity and in establishing legal governmental relations
between nations, which have declared their right to self-determination, and
the existing powers. The current dominating principle of territorial integrity
and frontier stability of existing states may be the cause of the world
holocaust, and the whole planet will probably be racked with conflicts like
Karabach, Yugoslavia, Tchetchnya, or other critical situations, which still
remain, unsettled.
