Against [an exercise of self-determination conducted in accordance with the requisites of international law, the bona fides of which has received international recognition by the political organs of the United Nations], historic claims and feudal pre-colonial titles are mere relics of another international legal era, one that ended with the setting of the sun on the age of colonial imperium.
Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malaysia, Application by the Philippines for Permission to Intervene), International Court of Justice, 23 October 2001, Separate Opinion of Judge ad hoc Franck, para. 15.
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