ABSTRACT
The Conference delegates undertook the Allied powers’ prior commitment to restrict the scope of application of this principle of self-determination to only some of the territories under colonial domination, specifically those remaining under the trusteeship regime of Chapter XII of the Charter. The participating States will respect the equal rights of peoples and their right to self-determination, acting at all times in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and with the relevant norms of international law, including those relating to territorial integrity of States. In Catalan secessionism there is no detachment from the other arguments put forward. On the contrary, the self-determination of the Catalan people is exercised according to its own will and its own will alone, that is, without taking into account constitutional procedures or the opinion of the rest of the Spanish population.
