Opinion No. 2

Abstract

167Human rights — Group rights — Ethnic minorities — Self-determination — Whether ethnic minority within territory possesses right of self-determination — Nature of minority rights — Right to recognition of identity — Whether including right of members of minority to the nationality of their choice — Yugoslavia — Serbian population of Croatia and Bosnia-HercegovinaTerritory — Self-determination — Limits of right of self-determination — Whether extending to ethnic groups within territory — Whether capable of involving changes to existing frontiers at time of independence — Principle of uti possidetis — Yugoslavia