self-determination

Definitions

1. The ability or human right to make one's own decisions without interference from others
   uncountable
2. The political independence of a people
   uncountable
3. self-determination of peoples: the collective right to determine its own destiny in the international order, to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development, the right to establish a state
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.”

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