Affirming the Principle of Good Neighborliness in International Relations

The territory is the fundamental part of a state. It is the geographical space where a state exercises its full sovereignty, asserts its authority and possesses its national resources and wealth. A state territory is a land area under the sovereignty of a given state, in other words, an area in which the state exercises supreme power and which it controls, organizing itself in an administrative relationship and establishing its legal regime. One of the components of a state's sovereignty is its territorial supremacy. The nature of the territorial supremacy of state sovereignty and of the state as a whole cannot be derived from any legal category. The territory of a state includes the land, inland waters and the territorial sea, the airspace above the state. There are also international rivers, streams and canals, which may lie within the territory of one or more states. An international territory is an area of international law which is not subject to the sovereignty of any state and which is open to all states in accordance with international legal standards, the airspace above it as well as over an exclusive economic zone, the seabed and ocean floor outside the country, outer space including the Moon and other celestial bodies.