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n. (context international law English) the principle that a state’s borders are sacrosanct; the idea that nation-states should not attempt to promote secessionist movements or to promote border changes in other nation-states
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Territorial integrity is the principle under international law that nation-states should not attempt to promote secessionist movements or to promote border changes in other nation-states. Conversely it states that imposition by force of a border change is an act of aggression.
In recent years there has been tension between this principle and the concept of humanitarian intervention under Article 73.b of the United Nations Charter "to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement."
Usage examples of "territorial integrity".
Respect for territorial integrity is the sine qua non of regional and global stability.
Even if we managed to take Talbott entirely away from them with local forces, their fundamental territorial integrity—.
Even if we managed to take Talbott entirely away from them with local forces, their fundamental territorial integrity-both at home and in Silesia-would be safe from us for months, at the very least.
On August 13 Foreign Minister Sazonov proposed to France to offer Turkey a solemn guarantee of her territorial integrity and a promise of “.
Moreover, my first and foremost responsibility is to protect the civilian populations and territorial integrity of our allies.
Malin, who violated German territorial integrity and started the German crisis, will be gone.
Black Joke's commAnder was strictly adjured to respect the territorial integrity of the Sultan of the Omani Arabs, and the exact letter of the treaty that the British Consul had negotiated at Zanzibar.
Nil Spaar has been adamant about territorial integrity, she said.
The Second World War began over the question of Polish territorial integrity, but Poland has not recovered, and will never recover, its 1939 borders.