Abstract
The article “Fundamental politico-legal principles for self-determination rights of nations and nationalities” provides description of principles for self-determination rights of nations and nationalities during different epochs. The principles for self-determination rights of nations and nationalities was formulated during the Age of Enlightenment and French Revolution as a theoretical weapon against Feudal State laws and against the Tsar regime and serfdom in Russia during the first quarter of XIX century. The Democratic movements in Russia, USA and European countries were mostly interested in overthrowing monarchies rather than in rights of nations. Soviet government required class and dialectic approach serving to the interest of Bolsheviks. 
 When speaking about “rights of nations” or “rights of nationalities” W. Wilson intentionally forgot the “rights” of the native minor nations and nationalities and national minorities. So the issue of self-determination right for nations and nationalities remained unsettled.
 In early XX century Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and now Azerbaijan İndependent Republic provided the nations and nationalities living in the territory with the free space for development “regardless their sex, race, nationality, religious belief, social origin, political belief and other circumstances. In this case each nation, nationality and ethnic group must implement the level of their quality characteristics: steps and extent of development, number, occupied territory etc
Highlights
The historical experience, both whole humanity and individual countries, proves that the oppression and inequality that whole nations have been subjected to throughout their history can be eliminated only through their free self-determination
The division of the world into two camps, socialism and capitalism, violated this tranquility, the time of the cold war between the two superpowers, the United States and the USSR, which adhered to the principle of territorial integrity in order to prevent new redistribution of the world came
The nations of the colonial countries fought for independence in the conditions of the collapse of the world colonial system. Such a contradiction arose from the fact that the principles of the territorial integrity of states and the right of nations to self-determination were not interpreted in interrelation and the forms and levels of implementation of the latter were not developed
Summary
The historical experience, both whole humanity and individual countries, proves that the oppression and inequality that whole nations have been subjected to throughout their history can be eliminated only through their free self-determination. In 1945, the United Nations was created, which approved all the basic principles of international relations in its Charter It seemed that there came an era of relative calm in the world. The nations of the colonial countries fought for independence in the conditions of the collapse of the world colonial system Such a contradiction arose from the fact that the principles of the territorial integrity of states and the right of nations to self-determination were not interpreted in interrelation and the forms and levels of implementation of the latter were not developed. Selfdetermination was understood only as the separation and creation of an independent state, while the principle of territorial integrity of states existed, which prevented a clear definition of the mechanism of action of these two principles
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