FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental principles of international law are initially imprinted at the abstract level of the legal experiences of nations, as guiding ideas of a social nature which, as time goes by and their viability is proven, require normative protection at the international level through appropriate regulation. This article analyses the content of each of the ten fundamental principles of international law which are fully established in the United Nations General Assembly Declaration (UNO) no. 2625 (XXV)/1970 ”on principles of international law concerning friendly relations and cooperation among States in accordance with the UN Charter”, and in the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) adopted in Helsinki in 1975, respectively: the principle of the sovereign equality of States, the principle of self-determination, the principle of non-interference in internal affairs, the principle of non-use of force or threat of force, the principle of peaceful settlement of international disputes, the principle of good faith fulfilment of international obligations (pacta sunt servanda), the principle of cooperation, the principle of the inviolability of frontiers, the principle of territorial integrity and the principle of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, on the premise that the general principles of law, by virtue of their generality, applicability and binding force, are also fundamental not only to national systems of law but also to international law, in whose sphere of application they are used.

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