TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IN THE CONTEXT OF MAINTAINING THE UNITY OF THE STATE։

THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES

https://doi.org /10.59982/18294359-24.15-am-11

Abstract.

The article examines certain issues of constitutional and legal support for the territorial integrity of the state. The article makes an attempt to systematically reveal the legal content of the concept of “territorial integrity of a state”, emphasizing the rationale for the fact that territorial integrity is a material characteristic of a state and a material prerequisite for its sovereignty. The study highlights conceptual, theoretical, and practical approaches to territorial integrity in the context of preserving the unity of the state, which have significant and functional significance in the field of jurisprudence.

From the systematic analysis of the mentioned points of view, the author concluded that in the context of ensuring the unity of the state, the provision of its territorial integrity can be manifested with a dual meaning: external and internal, moreover, if the state “stands out” from other sovereign states not only through the demarcation of borders, but also with its territorial integrity and the unified system of public authority, foreign policy features, the purpose and vision of the state’s development, its approaches to the international legal system, etc., then in the domestic sphere, the territorial integrity of the state is, first of all, expressed in internal political, economic, legal, cultural and moral-psychological, national ideological terms. in aspects that also contribute to ensuring the security of the state and society and their normal development.

Based on the results of the research, it was concluded that the territorial integrity of the state is manifested in all cases by the inalienability of the state territory, and its provision itself acquires constitutional axiological significance.

Keywords: Territory of the state, territorial integrity of states, unity of the state, constitutional principle, material attribute of the state.

    PAGES : 126-133

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