"proclamation oftheTurkish Republic ofNorthern Cypruswillnothinderthetwo equalPeoples andtheiradministrations fromestablishing anewpartnership within theframework ofagenuine federation". Declaration ofIndependence andResolution Adopted bytheTurkish Cypriot Parliament on15November 1983,para.22(b). 17/UnitedStatescourts haveconsistently ruledthatwhether agovernment should berecognized isapolitical question whosedetermination iswithinthe exclusive prerogative oftheExecutive branch. BancoNacional deCubay. Sabbatino, 376U.S.398,410(1964); National CityBankofNewYorkv.Republic of ~, 348U.S.356.358(1955). SeeRestatement No.204("Under theConstitution oftheUnitedStates, thePresident hasexclusive authority torecognize ornotto recognize aforeign stateorqovernmentlandtomaintain ornottomaintain diplomatic relations withaforeign government."). International legalscholars likewise agreethatrecognition isapolitical act.See,e.g.,B.Jankovic, PublicInternational Law100(1984)(translation from the5thSerbocroation edition byM.andB.Milosavljevic) ("Itisobvious thatin granting individual recognition statesaremotivated bytheirownpolitical interests, andthatrecognition isbasically apolitical act."); I.Brownlie l Principles ofInternational Law94(3ded.1979)("Recognition, asapublicactof ~,isanoptional andpolitical actandthereisnolegaldutyinthis regard."); Akehurst, AModernIntroduction toInternational Law63(3ded.1977); G.vonG1ahn, LawAmongNations 91(3ded.1976);J.Brierly, LawofNations 140 (6thed.,Waldock, 1963). ll/SeeJ.Brierly, IDm!:llnote16,p.147("therecognJ.Z1ng stateisnot concerned withthequestion whether thestateofthings whichitisrecognizing is legalbythenational lawofanother state"); .ii!.pp.148-49 ("Onthedeclaratory viewofthenatureofrecognition itsgranting orwithholding doesnot,sofaras international lawisconcerned, affectthestatusinlawofthestateorgovernment towhichitisaccorded orfromwhichitiswithheld.II). /... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryL/44/967 s/2L420 English Page 13 Notes ( cor.tinued) - L9/ Recognitiol of a State aad recognitioa of a particular gover[mentalr6girne are two different ehrngs. see r. irorrnlie, pri-ncipres or iuriicrnternationar Lan 95 (3rat ed. 1979) ( ,.Non-recog'itioo oi-rl.ilIiGr-r-dgime is notuecessarily a deternination that the state represented uy tnat r6gime does not qualify for statehood.,'); Re;tatement No. 203; conm€nt a (while a state canrnoErecog:r'ize a r6g!'me as a governtne't without ther€by acceptirg the atatehood of theentitt which the r69ime claims to be governiug, ,,ial stit. i.o, ho*.rr.", recogDizeor treat an entity as a state whil6 denying that a particular r6girne is itsgovernment") ' rt folrows therefore thaa a state nay d.erecognize a r6gin6 as thegovernment of a.other staLe without derecoglizirg the state it govern! anat rithoutformally recoguizing any other govermetrt. Restatetneat No. 203, comnent f. L8/ See Montevideo Corventio! on the Rights anat Duties of States,26 December 1933, r.65 League of Nations treati series r.gi Restaternent No. z0r andcofinnerts a-ei f. Brownlie, supra trote 16, pp. j4-75.
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