Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, Montevideo, 26 December 1933, Article 1

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/interam/intam03.htm

Independence and sovereignty - see point 3 of the separate opinion of Judge Anzilotti in the Austro-German Customs Union case (PCIJ):

http://www.icj-cij.org/pcij/index.php?p1=9&p2=3&p3=2&co=A/B41

[ PCIJ French and English on alternate pages]

Taiwan

Compare:

Peoples Republic of China, --The Taiwan Question

http://www.chinese-embassy.no/eng/ztxw/twwt/default.htm

and

Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan)

http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan%2Dwebsite/5%2Dgp/yearbook/06Taiwan-China.htm

Footnote links:

3 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/interam/intam03.htm

Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, Montevideo, 26 December 1933

4 see eg claims reported at

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/um!wake.html

and

www.sealandgov.com

41 The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, which provided a fuller account of the Australian position, has now closed; but on agreements, treaties and settlements with indigenous peoples see now:

http://www.atns.net.au/default.asp

45 http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/thomas.htm

72 http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=58