Alfred de Zayas quote: “Neither the right of self-determination nor the principle of territorial integrity is absolute.”

“Neither the free will of the people nor the right of self-determination nor even the consent of a majority of convinced National-Socialists can be cited as justification for the obliteration of Austria after 1938.”

Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977) Chancellor of Austria

Source: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 209-210

“This identity is neither coincidental nor self-evident.”

Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (1925–1991) Israeli linguist

Commenting that his reconstruction of the history of text of the Bible agrees with that produced by other methods.
"Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts" (Biblica, 48 (1967), pp.243-290)

“The principle of territorial integrity is not sufficient justification to perpetuate situations of internal conflict that may erupt in civil war and threaten regional and international peace and security”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

2018, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council

“There is consensus among States, judges of international tribunals and professors of international law that self-determination is not only a principle but also a right that has achieved the status of jus cogens.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the right of self determination http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx.
2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly

“Self-determination is now recognized as a principle of legitimacy underlying modern international law.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the right of self determination http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx.
2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly

“The Territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not and will never be the topic of negotiations… Azerbaijan will not retreat from this position in any single step. This means that in territorial integrity of Azerbaijan […] there will be no compromise.”

Heydar Aliyev (1923–2003) Soviet and Azerbaijani politician

http://en.president.az/azerbaijan/karabakh
Quotes on Nagorno Karabakh

“All peoples have the right of self-determination.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the right of self determination http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx.
2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly

“The bearers of the right of self-determination possess justiciable rights, not mere promises.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the right of self determination http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx.
2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly

“I felt the South Vietnamese had a right to their own self-determination. And I was over there to help them to maintain that self-determination.”

James Robinson Risner (1925–2013) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Source: "Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with Robinson Risner" https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6076E82857E84041BBB27C3C40582A89 (1981)

“In short, we are neither "warmongers" nor "appeasers," neither "hard" nor "soft." We are Americans, determined to defend the frontiers of freedom, by an honorable peace if peace is possible, but by arms if arms are used against us.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

1961, Address at the University of Washington
Context: In short, we are neither "warmongers" nor "appeasers," neither "hard" nor "soft." We are Americans, determined to defend the frontiers of freedom, by an honorable peace if peace is possible, but by arms if arms are used against us. And if we are to move forward in that spirit, we shall need all the calm and thoughtful citizens that this great University can produce, all the light they can shed, all the wisdom they can bring to bear. It is customary, both here and around the world, to regard life in the United States as easy. Our advantages are many. But more than any other people on earth, we bear burdens and accept risks unprecedented in their size and their duration, not for ourselves alone but for all who wish to be free.

“Neither the right of self-determination nor the principle of territorial integrity is absolute.”

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