A declaration of independence, declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another state or failed state, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state. In 2010, the UN's International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion in Kosovo that "International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence",[1] though the state from which the territory wishes to secede may regard the declaration as rebellion, which may lead to a war of independence or a constitutional settlement to resolve the crisis.
^No reference in original Albanian text to the declaration being the work of the Assembly of Kosovo. The language used in the declaration differs from that employed in acts of the Assembly of Kosovo in that the first paragraph commences with the phrase "We, the democratically-elected leaders of our people . . .", whereas acts of the Assembly of Kosovo employ the third person singular. Moreover, the procedure employed in relation to the declaration differed from that employed by the Assembly of Kosovo for the adoption of legislation. It was not transmitted to the Special Representative of the Secretary General and was not published in the Official Gazette of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo. As the practice shows, he would have been under a duty to take action with regard to acts of the Assembly of Kosovo which he considered to be ultra vires. Taking all factors together, the authors of the declaration of independence of 17 February 2008 did not act as one of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government within the Constitutional Framework, but rather as persons who acted together in their capacity as representatives of the people of Kosovo outside the framework of the interim administration.
^The Continental Congress voted in favor of the Declaration of Independence on July 2.[14] Versions were not printed until July 4 and later, while the signatories did not sign the Matlack declaration until August.[15]
^Tucker, Spencer (2009). The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 364. ISBN978-1-85109-951-1.
^Singapore was forced out of Malaysia by the Malaysian Parliament, and the proclamations were then agreed by the two governments. See the Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 2017-06-28 at the Wayback Machine (1985 Rev. Ed.) and the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
^Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state
^Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state/proclamation of singapore
^A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation : U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875. Library of Congress. 2003. pp. 506–507. Tuesday July 2, 1776 [...] Resolved, That these United colonies are, and, of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved of all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
^Coelho, Chris (2013), Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence, McFarland, p. 61, ISBN978-0-7864-7443-1
^US-Morocco Diplomatic Relationship 2015-08-12 at the Wayback Machine. Official Web site of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States of America.
^Dolan, Kerry A. (November 21, 2013). "Why Morocco Matters To The U.S." Forbes. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
^The Lord Glenelg (25 May 1836), "EXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Lord GLENELG to Major-General Sir RICHARD BOURKE, New South Wales", written at London, Documents > Declaration of Independence, Christchurch: Waitangi Associates, retrieved 22 May 2010
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This article is about the general document For the United States declaration of independence see United States Declaration of Independence For other uses see Declaration of independence disambiguation A declaration of independence declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another state or failed state or are breakaway territories from within the larger state In 2010 the UN s International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion in Kosovo that International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence 1 though the state from which the territory wishes to secede may regard the declaration as rebellion which may lead to a war of independence or a constitutional settlement to resolve the crisis Contents 1 List of declarations of independence 2 See also 3 Explanatory notes 4 References 5 External linksList of declarations of independence EditThis incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive State Declaration Date Year Association Signatories First recognizing state s Albania Albanian Declaration of Independence November 28 1912 Ottoman Empire Assembly of Vlore Austria Hungary Armenia Declaration of Independence of Armenia May 28 1918 Soviet Russia Armenian National Congress 1917 Armenian Revolutionary Federation ARF Dashnak Ottoman Empire Armenia Declaration of State Sovereignty of Armenia August 23 1990 Soviet Union Levon Ter Petrosyan and Supreme Council of Armenia secretary Ara Sahakian Lithuania Artsakh Proclamation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic September 2 1991 Soviet Union Nagorno Karabakh Regional and Shahumyan District Councils of People s Deputies of the Azerbaijan SSR Azawad Azawadi Declaration of Independence April 6 2012 Mali National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Azerbaijan Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan May 28 1918 Soviet Russia Azerbaijani National Council Hasan bey Aghayev Fatali Khan Khoyski Nasib Yusifbeyli Jamo bey Hajinski Sefi bey Rustambeyli Nariman bey Narimanbeyov Javad Malik Yeganov Mustafa Mahmudov Ottoman Empire Azerbaijan Act on Restoration of State Independence of Azerbaijan October 18 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Azerbaijan Turkey Bangladesh Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence March 26 1971 Pakistan Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh Bhutan Belarus Third Constituent Charter March 25 1918 Soviet Russia Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic Belarus Announcement of the Declaration of Independence of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia July 31 1920 Poland Communist Party Bolsheviks of Byelorussia trade unions Soviet Russia Belarus Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic July 27 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the BSSR Turkey Belgium Belgian Declaration of Independence October 4 1830 Netherlands Provisional Government of Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Declaration of Independence March 1 1992 Yugoslavia Bulgaria Bougainville Bougainville Declaration of Independence May 1990 Papua New Guinea Bougainville Interim Government Brazil Declaration of the Independence of Brazil September 7 1822 Portugal Pedro I of Brazil United States Bulgaria Bulgarian Declaration of Independence September 22 1908 Ottoman Empire Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the Government of Bulgaria Russia 5 February 1909 Burma Burmese Declaration of Independence January 4 1948 United Kingdom Catalonia Declaration of the Catalan Republic as a state of the Iberian Federation April 14 1931 Spain Francesc Macia Generalitat Government of Catalonia Catalonia Declaration of the Catalan state within the Federal Republic of Spain October 6 1934 Spain Lluis Companys Generalitat Government of Catalonia Catalonia Declaration from the representatives of Catalonia as the Catalan Republic October 27 2017 Spain Central America present day Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Act of Independence of Central America September 15 1821 Spain Chile Chilean Declaration of Independence February 12 1818 Spain National Congress Portugal Colombia Colombian Declaration of Independence July 20 1810 Spain Comoros Comorian Declaration of Independence July 6 1975 France Guinea Crimea Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea March 11 2014 Ukraine Supreme Council of Crimea Russia Croatia Declaration of the Establishment of the Sovereign and Independent Republic of Croatia June 25 1991 Yugoslavia Iceland Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence October 18 1918 Austria Hungary Czechoslovak National Council United States Dominican Republic Dominican Declaration of Independence February 27 1844 Haiti United Kingdom East Timor East Timorese declaration of independence November 28 1975 Portugal Morocco Egypt Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence February 28 1922 United Kingdom Unilateral grant of independence by the British government United Kingdom Estonia Estonian Declaration of Independence February 24 1918 Germany Russia Estonian Salvation Committee Finland Finland Finnish Declaration of Independence December 6 1917 Russia Parliament of Finland Soviet Russia First Mexican Empire present day Mexico Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire real independence clarification needed September 28 1821 Spain Supreme Provisional Governmental Board United Kingdom January 4 1825 2 Florida Florida s Constitution of 1861 January 10 1861 United States Florida State Legislature Galicia Declaration of the Republic of Galicia June 27 1931 Spain Georgia Democratic Republic of Georgian Declaration of Independence 1918 May 26 1918 Soviet Russia Georgian National Council Germany Georgia Republic of Act of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia April 9 1991 3 Soviet Union Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia Switzerland Georgia State of Georgia s secession declaration January 29 1861 United States Greece Greek Declaration of Independence January 1 OS 1822 Ottoman Empire First National Assembly Haiti 1822 Guinea Bissau Guinea Bissau Declaration of Independence September 24 1973 Portugal Haiti Haitian Declaration of Independence January 1 1804 France Jean Jacques Dessalines France April 17 1825 4 Hungary Hungarian Declaration of Independence April 14 1849 Habsburgs Iceland Icelandic Declaration of Independence June 17 1944 Denmark United States India Declaration of the Independence of India January 26 1930 United Kingdom Indonesia Proclamation of Indonesian Independence August 17 1945 Netherlands Sukarno amp Mohammad Hatta Kingdom of Egypt 5 Iraq Iraq Declaration of Independence October 3 1932 United Kingdom United Kingdom Ireland Proclamation of the Irish Republic April 24 Easter Monday 1916 United Kingdom Provisional Government of the Irish Republic Irish Republic Irish Declaration of Independence January 21 1919 United Kingdom Dail Eireann Soviet Russia Israel Israeli Declaration of Independence May 14 1948 United Kingdom Jewish People s Council United States Katanga Katangan Declaration of Independence 1960 Congo Leopoldville Korea Korean Declaration of Independence March 1 1919 Japan Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea Republic of China 1933 Kosova Proclamation of the Republic of Kosova September 22 1992 FR Yugoslavia Assembly of Kosovo Albania Kosovo Kosovo declaration of independence February 17 2008 Serbia UN Administration Democratically elected leaders of our people a Costa Rica Latvia Latvian Declaration of Independence November 18 1918 Germany Soviet Russia People s Council of Latvia Soviet Russia Latvia On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia May 4 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR Iceland Liberia Liberian Declaration of Independence July 16 1847 American Colonization Society Liberian Constitutional Convention United Kingdom Lithuania Act of Independence of Lithuania February 16 1918 Germany Soviet Russia Council of Lithuania Germany Lithuania Act of the Re Establishment of the State of Lithuania March 11 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Lithuania Iceland Lower Canada Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada February 22 1838 United Kingdom Robert Nelson none Macedonia Independence of the Republic of Macedonia September 8 1991 Yugoslavia Bulgaria Malaya present day Malaysia Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957 August 31 1957 United Kingdom Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister of Malaysia United Kingdom 6 Mississippi A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union January 9 1861 United States Moldova Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova August 27 1991 Soviet Union Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Romania Montenegro Montenegro declaration of independence June 3 2006 Serbia and Montenegro Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro Iceland Morocco Moroccan Declaration of Independence January 11 1944 France Istiqlal Party Netherlands Act of Abjuration July 26 1581 Spain Union of Utrecht Northern America present day Mexico Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America November 6 1813 Spain Congress of Anahuac Northern Cyprus Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus November 15 1983 Cyprus Turkey Northern Epirus Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence February 28 1914 Albania Provisional Government of Northern Epirus North Solomons Declaration of Independence of the Republic of the North Solomons September 1 1975 Territory of Papua and New Guinea Australia Unknown Vatican City Norway Kingdom of Norway Declaration of Independence of Norway short after clarification needed sovereign under the Swedish monarchy and the Constitution of Norway May 17 1814 Denmark Norway As of Treaty of Kiel Norwegian Constituent Assembly Padania Padanian Declaration of Independence September 15 1996 Italy Pakistan Lahore Resolution March 24 1940 United Kingdom Muslim League Pakistan Palestine Palestinian Declaration of Independence November 15 1988 Palestinian territories Jordan claimed the West Bank until 1988 Palestinian National Council Arab League Peru Act of the Declaration of Independence of Peru July 28 1821 Spain Jose de San Martin Argentina Philippines Philippine Declaration of Independence June 12 1898 Spain United States 98 representatives of Dictatorial Government of the Philippines 7 ratified on September 29 1898 by the Malolos Congress 8 Provinces of the Rio de la Plata present day Argentina Bolivia Uruguay Argentine Declaration of Independence July 9 1816 Spain Congress of Tucuman Hawaii Rhodesia Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence November 11 1965 United Kingdom Ian Smith and the rest of the Cabinet none Romania Romanian Declaration of Independence May 22 1877 Ottoman Empire King Carol I Russia Belovezha Accords December 12 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Bir Lehlou Declaration February 27 1976 Spanish Sahara Polisario Front Madagascar Scotland Declaration of Arbroath April 6 1320 England Scottish leaders Serbia The Proclamation Proglasenije Proglasheniјe February 1809 Ottoman Empire Karađorđe Petrovic and Serbian MPs Singapore Proclamation of Singapore 9 August 9 1965 Malaysia 10 11 Lee Kuan Yew Prime Minister of Singapore United Kingdom confirmed earlier recognition 12 Slovakia Slovak National Council s Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation July 17 1992 Czechoslovakia Slovak National Council Slovenia Slovenian Declaration of Independence June 25 1991 Yugoslavia Croatia Somaliland Somaliland Declaration of Independence May 18 1991 Somalia None South Carolina Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union December 24 1860 United States South Carolinians in Charleston Sri Lanka Declaration of Independence of Sri Lanka Then known as Ceylon February 4 1948 United Kingdom Texas Republic of Texas Declaration of Independence March 2 1836 Mexico France Texas State of A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union February 1 1861 United States Texas Legislature Tibet Tibet s Declaration of Independence February 13 1913 China 13th Dalai Lama Mongolia Turkmenistan Declaration of independence 1991 Soviet Union none Turkey Ukraine IV Universal January 22 1918 Soviet Russia Central Council of Ukraine Ukraine Declaration of Independence of Ukraine August 24 1991 Soviet Union Verkhovna Rada Canada Poland 13 United States United States Declaration of Independence July 2 b 1776 Great Britain Second Continental Congress Morocco 16 17 United Tribes of New Zealand Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand October 28 1835 Maori chiefs United Kingdom 18 Uzbekistan Declaration of Independence August 31 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Uzbekistan Turkey Venezuela Venezuelan Declaration of Independence July 5 1811 Spain National Congress Vermont Vermont Declaration of Independence January 15 1777 United States British Quebec Vietnam Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam September 2 1945 France Hồ Chi Minh ChinaSee also EditIndependence referendum List of national independence days List of sovereign states by date of formation Political history of the world Separatism Unilateral declaration of independenceExplanatory notes Edit No reference in original Albanian text to the declaration being the work of the Assembly of Kosovo The language used in the declaration differs from that employed in acts of the Assembly of Kosovo in that the first paragraph commences with the phrase We the democratically elected leaders of our people whereas acts of the Assembly of Kosovo employ the third person singular Moreover the procedure employed in relation to the declaration differed from that employed by the Assembly of Kosovo for the adoption of legislation It was not transmitted to the Special Representative of the Secretary General and was not published in the Official Gazette of the Provisional Institutions of Self Government of Kosovo As the practice shows he would have been under a duty to take action with regard to acts of the Assembly of Kosovo which he considered to be ultra vires Taking all factors together the authors of the declaration of independence of 17 February 2008 did not act as one of the Provisional Institutions of Self Government within the Constitutional Framework but rather as persons who acted together in their capacity as representatives of the people of Kosovo outside the framework of the interim administration The Continental Congress voted in favor of the Declaration of Independence on July 2 14 Versions were not printed until July 4 and later while the signatories did not sign the Matlack declaration until August 15 Further information Lee ResolutionReferences Edit Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo PDF Icj cij org Archived from the original PDF on 2010 08 21 Retrieved 2014 02 14 Inglaterra primer pais que reconoce la Independencia de Mexico in Spanish Memoria Politica de Mexico Retrieved September 18 2011 Act of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia Archived from the original on 2020 05 20 Ashmore Harry S ed 1961 Encyclopaedia Britannica a new survey of universal knowledge Volume 11 p 85 Retrieved 11 May 2016 Mohy Mahmoud 2017 10 30 EXCLUSIVE Indonesian President s Advisor We have a long history with Egypt Egypt Today Retrieved 2022 02 15 Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957 Philippine History Rex Bookstore Inc 2004 p 162 ISBN 978 971 23 3934 9 Tucker Spencer 2009 The Encyclopedia of the Spanish American and Philippine American Wars A Political Social and Military History ABC CLIO p 364 ISBN 978 1 85109 951 1 Singapore was forced out of Malaysia by the Malaysian Parliament and the proclamations were then agreed by the two governments See the Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 Archived 2017 06 28 at the Wayback Machine 1985 Rev Ed and the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state proclamation of singapore Singapore Act 1966 Ukraine and Russia The Post Soviet Transition by Roman Solchanyk Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers 2000 ISBN 0742510182 page 100 Canadian Yearbook of International Law Vol 30 1992 University of British Columbia Press 1993 ISBN 9780774804387 page 371 Szporluk Roman 24 February 2020 Russia Ukraine and the Breakup of the Soviet Union Hoover Press ISBN 978 0 8179 9543 0 p 355 A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation U S Congressional Documents and Debates 1774 1875 Library of Congress 2003 pp 506 507 Tuesday July 2 1776 Resolved That these United colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States that they are absolved of all allegiance to the British Crown and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved Coelho Chris 2013 Timothy Matlack Scribe of the Declaration of Independence McFarland p 61 ISBN 978 0 7864 7443 1 US Morocco Diplomatic Relationship Archived 2015 08 12 at the Wayback Machine Official Web site of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States of America Dolan Kerry A November 21 2013 Why Morocco Matters To The U S Forbes Retrieved July 11 2017 The Lord Glenelg 25 May 1836 EXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Lord GLENELG to Major General Sir RICHARD BOURKE New South Wales written at London Documents gt Declaration of Independence Christchurch Waitangi Associates retrieved 22 May 2010External links Edit Media related to Declarations of independence at Wikimedia Commons 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