Editing Territorial dispute (section)

==Basis in international law==
Territorial disputes have significant meaning in the international society, both by their relation to the fundamental right of states, sovereignty and also because they are important for international peace. International law has significant relations with territorial disputes because territorial disputes tackles the basis of international law; the state territory. International law is based on the persons of international law, which requires a defined territory, as mentioned in the 1933 [[Montevideo Convention|Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States]].

Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention declares that "[t]he state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with other States" <ref name=":0">{{cite web | title=Convention on Rights and Duties of States, Signed at Montevideo, December 26, 1933 | website=Historical Documents | publisher=[[Office of the Historian]] | date=1933-12-26 | url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1933v04/d134 | access-date=2024-06-27 | archive-date=2024-06-27 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627175841/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1933v04/d134 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Also, B. T. Sumner's article mentions, "In international law and relations, ownership of territory is significant because sovereignty over land defines what constitutes a state."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1227&context=dlj|title=Territorial Disputes at the International Court of Justice|last=Sumner|first=Brian Taylor|publisher=Duke Law Journal|access-date=September 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233307/http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1227&context=dlj|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Therefore, the breach of a country's borders or territorial disputes pose a threat to a state's very sovereignty and the right as a person of international law.  In addition, territorial disputes are sometimes brought to the [[International Court of Justice]], as was the case in Costa Rica and Nicaragua (2005).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=2|title=List of Cases referred to the Court since 1946 by date of introduction|publisher=International Court of Justice|access-date=September 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906030830/http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=2|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Territorial disputes cannot be separated from international law, whose basis is on the law of state borders, and their potential settlement also relies on international law and the Court.