{"id":5113,"date":"2019-12-07T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2019-12-07T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:20:53","slug":"bougainville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/bougainville\/","title":{"rendered":"Bougainville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: International<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Across the world, various territories are agitating for independence \u2014 Bougainville, an island in the Pacific, Catalonia in Spain, Kurdistan in Iraq, Tibet in China. New countries are suddenly in high demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Important Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no law barring regions from declaring independence.<\/li>\n<li>In June 1945, the right of \u201cself-determination\u201d was included in the UN charter. This means that a population has the right to decide how and by whom it wants to be governed.<\/li>\n<li>Kosovo in Serbia declared independence in 2008, and only a few other countries recognise it.<\/li>\n<li>According to 1933\u2019s Montevideo Convention, a country-hopeful must have a defined territory, people, government, and the ability to form relationships with other countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How does a territory become a new country?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A region\u2019s quest for nationhood mainly depends on how many countries and international organisations recognise it as a country.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest sanction of nationhood is the United Nations recognising a territory as a country. UN recognition means a new country has access to the World Bank, the IMF, etc. Its currency is recognised, which allows it to trade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: International Why in news? Across the world, various territories are agitating for independence \u2014 Bougainville,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5114,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}