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only become subjects of international law after recognition.
A. Vylegzhanin:
Doubts have been expressed as to whether a population of 40,000 is
large enough to be recognized as a state, and whether Abkhazia and South Ossetia have a
chance of becoming UN members. I do not think the importance of quantitative factors
should be overestimated. Let us take the state of Tuvalu nine islands, four of them being
claimed by the United States it is very well off even without the UN. It is a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations, and there are no problems there. It casts itself as a subject
of international law, it is party to international agreements, and it effectively functions.
The issue of the recognition of states is up to a certain point exaggerated. It is more im-
portant for a new sate e.g., Abkhazia to fulfill itself as a subject of international law in re-
ality.
V. Likhachev:
I am currently involved in the process of creating for the first time in the
history of Russian parliamentarianism a sub-committee on international law and legislation,
in cooperation with the Diplomatic Academy and the Russian Association of International
Law. Today, we are encountering a large number of serious problems, which, in my opinion,
could indeed lead us to a kind of revolution in modern international law. After all, the re-
view of many concepts and categories, but most importantly, their interaction, suggests
that a new conceptual and regulatory apparatus should evolve to describe the existing re-
alities.
There is also covert practice, which could be described as a gray or black zone. For example,
Turkey is actively involved in Abkhazia, helping it both survive and develop. From the per-
spective of the modern concept of international recognition, it is essential to use new ap-
proaches: a subject of international law, a subject of international relations, a subject of
the international community or something along these lines. Both the Executive Office of
the President of the Russian Federation and the Foreign Ministry need recommendations
from the Russian expert and academic community.
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