The State Sovereignty and Sovereign Rights: the Correlation Problem

In this paper the question on the content of the sovereign rights and their relation to sovereignty was not enough developed in legal science. These issues are in the focus of present paper. In the traditional legal doctrine sovereignty is the category which expresses the content and scope of competences of the state in the domestic and foreign policy. The appearance of a new state automatically means the presence of its sovereignty. The loss of sovereignty leads to the termination of its existence as a subject of international law. The states are forced to self-restriction of their sovereign rights in international (interstate) communication, but without losing the sovereignty. As the human rights, the sovereign rights of the state in a certain sense can be treated as natural. The sovereign rights associate with the existence of the state and don’t depend on other non-legal factors. Conception of the states’ legal equality results in the identity and equality in sovereign rights that states can use on their own. The meaning of the sovereign rights consist of the determination and guaranteeing and clearly defined boundaries of the freedom of the state. Can sovereign rights change in the process of historical development of the states? What is the “measure” of changes of the sovereign rights volume? This rights are inherent to the state and as long as sovereign stats play the major role in international law, their strength remains ultima ratio.