Legal Literacy - This article explains the meaning and a brief explanation of the recognition of new states in international law. Recognition of a new state is an important factor for a country to establish international relations with other countries, both diplomatic relations and international trade relations and other types of relations.

Understanding the Recognition of New States

Recognition (Recognition) is a free act given by a sovereign state to another state to recognize that the state has been accepted as part of the international community to the existence of a certain territory inhabited by a community that has an organized government, territory, and people so that it is considered capable of exercising rights and obligations and is able to carry out international relations based on the provisions of international law.

Moore in Setyo Widagdo (2008), an expert in International Law from the United States, argues that recognition is useful to ensure that a new State can occupy its proper place as an independent sovereign political organism in the midst of the family of nations which can lead to various relations with other countries safely and perfectly, without worrying that its position as a political unity will be disturbed by existing countries.