خلافة الدول في جنسية الاشخاص الطبيعيين : دراسة في القانون الدولي العام == States’ Succession in the Natural Persons Nationality A Study in the Public International Law
Author name:
ابو طالب هاشم احمد حمادي
Supervisor name:
طيبة جواد حمد المختار
Abstract:
This study deals with the nationality of the natural persons after any of the states’ succession, as one of the important subjects on the practical applied level and on the level of the international relations as well, because any change of a state sovereignty has a great effect on different aspects concerning the international community and the public interests such as the international treaties and the possibility of transferring these treaties from the predecessor state to the successor state especially after the appearance of ( the White sheet ) principle and ( the state continuity) principle. The first principle based on the impossibility oftransferring a treaty concluded by the predecessor state to the successor state, while the second principle aims to obligate the successor to apply the international treaties, because the legal personality of the state is kept in spite of the sovereignty change. The same thing is applied on the properties, money and debts. The regional sovereignty changes affect the nationality of the region’s subject, so this study is to show this effect. Nationality is one of the basic rights that the individual should enjoy as had been laid down by many of the international conventions of Human Rights Organization 1948, issued by the United Nations, and the two international conventions concerning the civil rights, the political rights, the social rights and the cultural rights 1966. The aim of this study is to deal with the negative effect of states’ succession on the natural persons, considering that the public law stated the principle of the state right of organizing its subjects nationality affairs : naturalization and denaturalization. This principle is valid for all the natural persons in the predecessor and successor states, and this could result in having more than one nationality, or in been without a nationality, and this, in its turn, would result in many problems on the level of the individual - states relation, and the individual relation with the international community, leading in a international conflict. It also affect the person residency after the succession, and the family members’ nationality. One of the important subjects that had been dealt with in this study is to grant the individuals the right of choosing the nationality, not to distinguish the individuals concerning naturalization or denaturalization. The reports of the international organizations concerning the human rights indicate that the state’s succession participates greatly in the non - nationality phenomena. The international law conventions did not neglect this matter; the convention of 1954 treated the legal status of those who do not have a nationality, and that of 1962 attempt to limit this phenomena. Worthy mention that the international law conventions attempted hardly to treat all the negative effect of nationality in case of states’ succession by establishing a number of the international agreements and declarations such as the declaration of Venice 1996, issued by the European commission for democracy and law, the European nationality agreement 1997, the United nations agreement for the natural person nationality 2000( issued according to the public assembly decision No.55/153 in 12/12/2000) and the agreement of the council of Europe 2006 where all those agreements aimed treat all the negative effect of nationality in case of states’ succession and organize the region’s citizens, or part of the region, which the international law called the states’ partial succession, and in the case of union or separation which is called the total succession. The thesis is divided into three chapters preceded by an introduction. The first chapter deals with the general conception of states’ succession with its linguistic and traditional meaning, showing the conventional attitude upon this subject, exhibiting the types of the states’ succession( partial and total), the destiny of the legal personality of the predecessor state and the effects of these two types concerning the agreements, money, properties, debts and preservations and the legal system. It also shows the attitude of the two agreements of Vienna( 1978 and 1983), and the other international exercises. This chapter exhibits thetraditional and modern theories that explain the legal nature of states’ succession( the global heritage) and( gathering the deductive and inductive methods) respectively. In addition to other important points. The second chapter studies the public judgments organizing nationality in the cases of states’ succession via tackling the main principles( naturalizing and denaturalizing) and the right of choosing the nationality, with the criteria that are followed in naturalizing and denaturalizing stated by the international agreements especially the agreement of the United nations 2000 where the 21st and 25th articles refer to the detailed judgments of each case of states’ succession. The third chapter is devoted to the effects of states’ succession on nationality, and the sequences in the state interior regime and the international regime as well as the foreign relations. It submits the ways of limiting these phenomena according to the international agreements. How to settle the disputes arising from states’ succession is also mentioned in this chapter according to the international agreements and declaration such asthe declaration of Venice 1996, the European nationality agreement 1997, United nations agreement for the natural person nationality 2000 and the agreement of reducing the no - nationality cases instates’ succession. It is necessary to explain the role of the international judiciary authorities represented by the international arbitration and the international court of justice, where the international judiciary authorities judgments participated in creating international principles governing the nationality instates’ succession. The thesis is ended with the conclusion that includes the most important results and recommendations. The subject had been studied philosophically and analytically in the terms of the public international law and theinternational judiciary authorities compering with the international practices concerning the nationality destiny instates’ succession.
