ABSTRACT
The foregoing facts indicate that on the eve of the founding of the United Nations, a new concept of the legitimacy of existing state regimes was beginning to form, to wit, their conformity with the UN members' requirements. Subsequent UN practice contributed to the concretization and development of this concept. The gist of the interpretation is roughly that the existence of a regime whose origin, nature, and policies are incompatible with the main purposes and principles of the United Nations may be characterized as a threat to the peace. The 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, adopted by the United Nations on the initiative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, served as the moral and political normative basis for the development of this new trend. The success of the United Nations in such cases lays the groundwork for increasing the possibilities for humanitarian intervention by the United Nations against other illegitimate regimes.
