Facts: Premise on the defeated resolution to the Agnostican Parliament proposing for the dissolution of the

Federal Government of Agnostica, East Agnostican provincial parliament schedule a plebiscite “open to all
Agnostican citizens resident in East Agnostica” on the question of secession. The conducted plebiscite was
concluded in fovour of the secession. Prime minister of Agmostica strongly oppose and stated that “Agnostica
does not recognized the outcome of the so-called referendum illegally conducted on the territory of our
nation, and invites the world community to see it as the sham and fraud that it is”. Following the referendum
the newly constituted self-styled “Agnorev People’s Parliament”, ratified the secession of East Agnostica and
voted unanimously to send delegation to enter into talks with Reverentia “aimed at the swiftest psoddible
integration of the territory of the Agnorev people into the State of Reverentia”.
Issue: The purported secession and subsequent Annexation of East Agnostica are illegal and without effect,
and therefore East Agnostica remains part of the territory of the Federal Republic of Agnostica.
The claimed secession and subsequent annexation of East Agnostica are illegal, [1] being a unilateral secession
it cannot be recognized under international law as it lack parent state consent1. Acts contrary to international
law cannot become a source of legal rights for the wrongdoer.

The claimed secession of the Agnorev and subsequent Annexation of East Agnostica are illegal as

While international law does not provide a right of secession, separatists have nonetheless relied on particular
provisions of international law in making their secessionist claims. They have focused on the United Nations'
clear recognition of self-determination~while disregarding the accompanying caveats that the principle does
not supersede a state's territorial integrity.

1
J. Crawford, The creation of States in International Law, 2006, 142 et