montevideo convention

[Noah]

What is the montevideo convention?

I was having a debate with a Uni student who take international law and says Kurdistan can't become a legal-state until it meet the principles in the montevideo convention.

So what is it? And is she right or wrong? I can't really argue with her as she is so much more knowledgeable and has like 10 years more experience in law than me and she's a bit of a righty.

[Janus]

Montevideo Convention (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/interam/intam03.htm)

These principles are generally used to allow "states" to qualify for statehood but certain nations have been recognized which leads people to question whether the guidelines are sufficient or not.

Questions of sovereignty (http://www.taiwanbasic.com/notes/HarIntMCexc.pdf)