... self-determination as a central element of peace basing his conception on the liberal notions of self government, consent of the governed and democracy.5 As a consequence of the inconsistent manner in which this notion of self-determination was applied following World War 1, according to Hurst Hannum it was not initially recognised as a fundamental right of the United Nations regime established in 1945 the corollary of which is that is mentioned only twice in the Charter of the United Nations both times in the context of developing "friendly relations among nations" and in conjunction with the principle of "equal rights of peoples."6 In actual fact the legal status and meaning of the self-determination principle evolved during decolonisation the process by which "colonial people liberates itself from the juridical, political, economic and ideological control exerted upon it by an alien power."7 As a result the right to self-determination of colonial peoples ...

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