Catalonia to appeal Rajoy's measures; if not successful it will pursue the case in international courts

Thursday, October 26th 2017 - 05:47 UTC

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Catalonia’s political leaders intend to bring a legal challenge to prevent the Spanish government from removing them from office and taking over running the region to stop its push for independence, a spokesman has said. Read full article

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Brit Bob
The right to self-determination needs to be re-defined because at this moment it applies to ALL non-self-governing territories; as Ban Ki-Moon explained -

“When one speaks of self-determination, certain areas have been recognized by the United Nations as non-autonomous territories. But Catalonia does not fall into this category,” Ban Ki-Moon said in an interview with Spanish newspapers El Pais, El Mundo, ABC and La Vanguardia. (31 Oct 2015).

Although this did not stop the ICJ finding that Kosovo's declaration of independence 'was not' illegal. Serbia had used the territorial integrity argument...

Falklands – Territorial Integrity & Argentinian stance:
https://www.academia.edu/10906570/Falklands_-_Territorial_Integrity_and_Argentinean_Stance
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Voice
I thought self-determination applied to ALL Peoples....
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