TERRITORIAL RIGHTS : Territory is a tangible attribute of statehood and within that particular geographical area which it occupies a state enjoys and exercises sovereignty. Territorial sovereignty may be defined as the right to exercise therein, to the

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Endless international and internal conflicts, costing the lives of countless human beings, have centred on the desire of this or that state-society to control this or that area of the earth’s surface to the exclusion of this or that state-society.1