CONSIDERATIONS ON TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND UNILATERRAL SEPARATION

The last decade of the XXth century was beneficiary of the new international environment regarding human rights and freedoms promotion. The frame within the observation of human rights and freedoms was larger than ever before, becoming a state policy together with judicial guarantees. The most important change was in the east of the space of the conference for security and cooperation in Europe. The recommendation 1201 was a reference moment at that time in the efforts of those trying to obtain the recognition of the collective rights for the national minorities, with consequences such as the recognition of the state local autonomy on ethnical criteria. Even for the colonies, the unilateral secession was an exception. The self-determination was firstly a matter of colonial authority to apply or not; supporting unilateral self-determination by the UN took place only if it was blocked by the colonial authority.