Recognition — States — Effects of recognition — Whether constitutive or declaratory — Conditions for recognition — Break up of existing State — Yugoslavia

States — Criteria for statehood — Territory and population subject to an organized political authority — Federal State — Whether requirement that federal organs represent components of federation and wield effective power — Yugoslavia — Whether Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ceased to fulfil these conditions by December 1991 — Whether in process of dissolution

State succession — Principles — Vienna Convention on State Succession in Respect of Treaties, 1978 — Vienna Convention on State Succession in Respect of State Property, Archives and Debts, 1983 — Whether reflecting customary international law — Outcome of succession to be achieved by negotiation on equitable basis — Yugoslavia — Whether Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in process of dissolution by December 1991 — Declarations of independence by certain Yugoslav Republics — Whether constituting secession — Whether any Republics or group of Republics constitute continuation of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia