Recognition of states approach
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A recognition of states approach is one of the three principal methods employed by states pertaining to the issue of recognition, following an unconstitutional change in the government of another state. It is the policy of recognizing states rather than governments. It is an alternative to the method of express recognition, in which an express statement is made according or withholding recognition after each unconstitutional change of government, and tacit recognition in which, only under exceptional circumstances, is a recognition statement made.
It was first enunciated by Mexico's foreign minister Genaro Estrada, in 1930.
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- Kindred, Hugh M., and Saunders, Phillip M., International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada Emond Montgomery Publications Limited, Seventh Edition (2006), "Chapter Two — International Legal Persons". Downloadable PDF
