Equality, Territorial Integrity, Non-Intervention

The UN General Assembly gives India, with over a billion people, exactly the same one vote it gives a country of a few hundred thousand. That is not an oversight. It is one of three linked principles that keep the international system from becoming a system ruled entirely by whoever is biggest.

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Sovereign equality, territorial integrity and non-intervention are the three practical guarantees that turn the abstract principle of sovereignty into rules states can actually rely on in their dealings with each other.

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