Aaland islands


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Related to Aaland islands: Ahvenanmaa, Upper Silesia
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an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control

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As such their support for the petition was weak, and as a result it was less of a dispute between Sweden and Finland than a dispute between the Aaland Islands and Finland.
Britain had submitted the Aaland Islands issue to the League of Nations rather than either Sweden or Finland.
The Aaland Islands Model and Kashmir
Nations reports on the Aaland Islands (121) and, more recently, in the
the League of Nations' resolution of the Aaland Islands issue.
Independence in Europe: secession, sovereignty, and the European Union
of Jurists Entrusted by the Council of the League of Nations with the Task of Giving an Advisory Opinion upon the Legal Aspects of the Aaland Islands Question, League of Nations Doc.
(83.) Many commentators overlook or obscure these aspects of the Aaland Islands reports.
Unilateral non-colonial secession in international law and declaratory General Assembly resolutions: textual content and legal effects
(94) Convention Relating to the Non-Fortification and Neutralisation of the Aaland Islands art.
The law of the sea and LNG: cross-border law and politics over head harbor passage
Alcohol Regulations in the Aaland islands" Contemporary Drug Problems, Vol 26, Spring 1999, p.
Alcohol Regulations in the Aaland Islands", Contemporary Drug Problems, Vol.
Special territories in European union and North Cyprus: A sui generis relationship under community law/Avrupa birligi'nde ozel bolgeler ve Kuzey Kibris: topluluk hukuku'nda sui generis bir iliski
part." (59) Aaland Islands went on to state that "[g]enerally
affirming a strong concept of state sovereignty, Aaland Islands did
Indigenous peoples' courts: egalitarian juridical pluralism, self-determination, and the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
In Finland, the Aaland Islands, which since 1921 have benefited from wide autonomy in terms of education, health or policing, had to adopt their own legislation in order to conform to EU law.
The Aaland Islands only reacted in 2007, after the opening of the second infringement procedure.
HEALTH : ORAL TOBACCO: FINLAND AGAIN HAULED BEFORE THE COURT
Originally, only members of the League Council or a nonmember state party to the minority treaty could petition for redress.(33) Only the treaty concerning Upper Silesia concluded by Germany and Poland provided for individual petition.(34) Subsequently, however, the right of individual petition was granted to some minorities.(35) A more specific indication of collective enforcement was the, agreement between Finland and Sweden relating to the population of Aaland Islands, under which the Aaland Landsting had the right of petition.(36)
The group concept in minority protection
Whilst proceedings against Finland have been closed (they concerned the Aaland Islands), the Commission has launched further proceedings against the other three which may eventually lead to the imposition of penalties (article 228 of the Treaty).
SOCIAL POLICY/DISCRIMINATION : ELEVEN MEMBER STATES OUT OF LINE
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