However, as a restatement of customary international law, the Montevideo Convention merely codified existing legal norms and its principles and therefore does not apply merely to the signatories, but to all subjects of international law as a whole.

The European Union, in the principal statement of its Badinter Committee, follows the Montevideo Convention in its definition of a state: by having a territory, a population, and a political authority.

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Because a state can only be admitted to the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that may be considered sovereign states according to the Montevideo Convention criteria are not members because the UN does not consider them to possess sovereignty, mainly due to the lack of international recognition or opposition from certain members.

In addition, the position of PRC is that the ROC does not meet the fourth criterion of the Montevideo Convention, as it is recognized by only and has been denied access to international organizations such as the UN.

The PRC points out the fact that the Montevideo Convention was only signed by 19 states at the Seventh International Conference of American States.

Thus the authority of the United Nations as well as UN Resolutions should supersede the Montevideo Convention.

According to the Montevideo Convention of 1933, the most cited source for the definition of statehood, a state must possess a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.

For instance, it is regularly argued that Taiwan satisfies the requirements of statehood at international law as stated in the Montevideo Convention.

At the same time, there is continued debate on whether UN membership or recognition as a state by the UN is a decisive feature of statehood ( since it represents broad recognition by the international community ); the debate arises because non-state entities can often satisfy the Montevideo Convention factors, while the list of states recognised by the UN, for the most part, correlate well with entities recognised as states by customary international law.

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* Montevideo Convention

Signed on August 12, 1980, the Montevideo Treaty is an international legal framework that establishes and governs the Latin American Integration Association.

As the Montevideo Treaty is a " framework treaty ", by subscribing to it, the governments of the member countries authorize their representatives to legislate through agreements on the economic issues of greatest importance to each country.

In Argentina and Uruguay the Spanish standard is based on the local dialects of Buenos Aires and Montevideo ( Rioplatense Spanish ).

A sanitary convention between the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay was concluded in Montevideo on 21 April 1914.

The Portuguese forces, thanks to their numerical and material superiority, occupied Montevideo on January 20, 1817, and finally after struggling for three years in the countryside, defeated Artigas in the Battle of Tacuarembó.

The Argentinian Unitarios formed a government-in-exile in Montevideo and, with secret French encouragement, Rivera declared war on Rosas in 1839.

The Argentinian blockade of Montevideo was ineffective as Rosas generally tried not to interfere with international shipping on the River Plate.

Montevideo, the capital and major port, sits on the banks of the Río de la Plata and is on approximately the same latitude as Cape Town and Sydney.

However, the advent of a convenient ( if circuitous ) land route from Montevideo to Buenos Aires via the new bridge reduced freight and passenger traffic through the small port of Colonia on the Río de la Plata just opposite the Argentine capital.

Montevideo was originally founded on a promontory beside a large bay that forms a perfect natural harbor.

By contrast, the local telephone network in Montevideo remained so hopelessly antiquated and unreliable that many firms relied on courier services to get messages to other downtown businesses.

* Regular passenger services are operated between Montevideo and 25 de Agosto ( 63 km ) since August 26, 1993 ( previously all regular passenger services were withdrawn on January 2, 1988 ).

One daily train was extended to San José ( 96 km from Montevideo ) on January 15, 2007, and other was extended from 25 de Agosto to Florida ( 109 km from Montevideo ) on January 2, 2008.

Another line, which operates between Montevideo and Ingeniero Victor Sudriers, was reopened on December 15, 2005 ( 44 km )

Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by its crew off Montevideo harbor on December 17.

During his rule, Saavedra and Campana were exiled, Montevideo fell to the United Provinces but serious problems arose with José Gervasio Artigas and the Liga Federal on the Eastern Bank of the Uruguay River.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

Montevideo () is a city in Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States.

The High Contracting Parties, animated by the purpose of giving conventional form to the postulates of the Resolution approved on December 16, 1933, by all the States represented at the Seventh International Conference of American States, held at Montevideo, which recommended to " the Governments of America which have not yet done so that they sign the ' Roerich Pact ', initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United States, and which has as its object, the universal adoption of a flag, already designed and generally known, in order thereby to preserve in any time of danger all nationally and privately owned immovable monuments which form the cultural treasure of peoples ", have resolved to conclude a treaty with that end in view, and to the effect that the treasures of culture be respected and protected in time of war and in peace, have agreed upon the following articles:

Carrera received help from the United States ' envoy who came with him, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and was able to escape from San Martin's forces, taking refuge in Montevideo under the protection of Brazilian General Carlos Frederico Lecor.

He had a lot of success in juniors for Great Britain, reaching a high of no 8, winning the Uruguay Bowl in Montevideo and reaching the semifinal of the US Junior Open in United States in 2001, the first British player ever to do so.

* 1933 Delegate of the United States to the Seventh International Conference of American States ( Pan-American Conference ), Montevideo, Uruguay

" and that under the new head of the U. S. Public Safety program in Uruguay, Dan Mitrione, the United States " introduced a system of nationwide identification cards, like those in Brazil … torture had become routine at the Montevideo jefatura.

The Latin American Free Trade Association ( LAFTA ) was created in the 1960 Treaty of Montevideo by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Princess Catherine who was 90 years old at the time, and died in Montevideo Uruguay the following year, was the last member of the Imperial Family to be born before the fall of the dynasty, and was ultimately to become the last surviving uncontested dynast of the Imperial House of Russia.

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold.

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold.

As a result Montevideo was occupied by a British force from February to September 1807.

The Colorados favored the exiled Argentinian liberal Unitarios, many of whom had taken refuge in Montevideo while the Blanco president Manuel Oribe was a close friend of the Argentinian ruler Manuel de Rosas.

The siege of Montevideo was lifted and the Guerra Grande finally came to an end.

Montevideo, which was used as a supply station by the Brazilian navy, experienced a period of prosperity and relative calm during the war.

Admiral Graf Spee took refuge in Montevideo, claiming sanctuary in a neutral port, but was later ordered out.

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold ; its natural harbor soon developed into a commercial center competing with Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires was invaded in 1806, and then liberated by forces from Montevideo led by Santiago de Liniers.

A new and stronger attack in 1807 aimed to Montevideo first, which was occupied by a 10, 000-strong British force.

The Colorados favored the exiled Argentinian liberal Unitarios, many of whom had taken refuge in Montevideo, while the Blanco president Manuel Oribe was a close friend of the Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas.

The latter was led by the exiled Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was working as a mathematics teacher in Montevideo when the war broke out.

After a 72-hour layover in port of Montevideo the captain of the Graf Spee, believing he was hopelessly outnumbered by the British, ordered the ship to be scuttled.

According to the 2004 census, the population of the department of Montevideo was 1, 325, 968, and that of the neighboring department of Canelones was 485, 240, out of a total population of 3, 241, 003.