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A
neutral country takes no side in a war between other parties, and in return hopes to avoid being attacked by either of them. A
neutralist policy aims at neutrality in case of an armed conflict that could involve the party in question. A
neutralist is an advocate of neutrality in international affairs.
]
The concept of
neutrality in conflicts must be distinguished from that of Non-aligned, i.e., the willful desistence from military alliances in order to preserve neutrality in case of war, and perhaps with the hope of preventing a war altogether.
The concept of
neutrality in war is narrowly defined and puts specific constraints on the neutral party in return for the internationally recognized right to remain neutral. A wider concept is that of non-belligerence. The basic international law covering neutral territories is the
Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907).
A country that reserves the right to become a belligerent if attacked by a party to the war is in a condition of armed neutrality.
Current neutral countries include:
- Austria - to maintain external independence and inviolability of borders (expressly modeled after the Swiss neutrality).
- Costa Rica
- Finland - a military doctrine of competent, "credible" independent defence, not depending on any outside support, and the desire to remain outside international conflicts. Resulting from the cold war position between East and West.
- Irish_neutrality
- Principality of Liechtenstein
- Swedish neutrality - Sweden hasn't fought a war since ending its involvement in the Napoleonic Wars in 1814, making it the oldest neutral country in the world.
- Switzerland - self-imposed, permanent, and armed, designed to ensure external security. Switzerland is the second oldest neutral country in the world; it has not fought a foreign war since its neutrality was established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
- Turkmenistan - declared its permanent neutrality and had it formally recognised by the U.N.
Countries claimed to have neutrality but not recognized by international affairs
- Cambodia - claimed neutrality 1955-1970, 1993 to the present day
- Moldova - Article 6 of the 1994 Constitution proclaims "permanent neutrality"
Past neutral countries include:
Other countries may be more active on the international stage, while emphasising an intention to remain neutral in case of war close to the country. By such a declaration of intentions, the country hopes that all belligerents will count on the country's territory as off limits for the enemy, and hence unnecessary to waste resources on.
Many countries made such declarations during
World War II. Most, however, became occupied, and in the end only the state of
Republic of Ireland,
Portugal,
San Marino,
Spain,
Sweden and
Switzerland (with
Liechtenstein) remained neutral of the European countries closest to the war. Their fulfillment to the letter of the rules of neutrality have been questioned: Ireland supplied some important secret information to the Allies; for instance, the date of D-Day was decided on the basis of incoming Atlantic meteorology secretly supplied to them by Ireland but kept from Germany. Also, German pilots who crash landed in Ireland were interned, whereas their Allied counterparts usually went "missing" close to the border. Sweden and Switzerland, as embedded within Nazi Germany and its associates, similarly made some concessions to Nazi requests.
However it should be noted that the neutrality of some countries now in the European Union is under dispute, especially as the EU now operates a Common Foreign and Security Policy. This view was supported by the
Finnish Prime Minister,
Matti Vanhanen, on 05/07/2006 while speaking to the European Parliament as Council President;
"Mr Pflüger described Finland as neutral. I must correct him on that: Finland is a member of the EU. We were at one time a politically neutral country, during the time of the Iron Curtain. Now we are a member of the Union, part of this community of values, which has a common policy and, moreover, a common foreign policy." European Parliament Debate (English Translation)
See also
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A
neutral country takes no side in a war between other parties, and in return hopes to avoid being attacked by either of them. A
neutralist policy aims at neutrality in case of an armed conflict that could involve the party in question. A
neutralist is an advocate of neutrality in
international affairs.
]
The concept of
neutrality in conflicts must be distinguished from that of Non-aligned, i.e., the willful desistence from
military alliances in order to preserve neutrality in case of war, and perhaps with the hope of preventing a war altogether.
The concept of
neutrality in war is narrowly defined and puts specific constraints on the neutral party in return for the internationally recognized right to remain neutral. A wider concept is that of
non-belligerence. The basic
international law covering neutral territories is the
Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907).
A country that reserves the right to become a belligerent if attacked by a party to the war is in a condition of armed neutrality.
Current neutral countries include:
- Austria - to maintain external independence and inviolability of borders (expressly modeled after the Swiss neutrality).
- Costa Rica
- Finland - a military doctrine of competent, "credible" independent defence, not depending on any outside support, and the desire to remain outside international conflicts. Resulting from the cold war position between East and West.
- Irish_neutrality
- Principality of Liechtenstein
- Swedish neutrality - Sweden hasn't fought a war since ending its involvement in the Napoleonic Wars in 1814, making it the oldest neutral country in the world.
- Switzerland - self-imposed, permanent, and armed, designed to ensure external security. Switzerland is the second oldest neutral country in the world; it has not fought a foreign war since its neutrality was established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
- Turkmenistan - declared its permanent neutrality and had it formally recognised by the U.N.
Countries claimed to have neutrality but not recognized by international affairs
- Cambodia - claimed neutrality 1955-1970, 1993 to the present day
- Moldova - Article 6 of the 1994 Constitution proclaims "permanent neutrality"
Past neutral countries include:
Other countries may be more active on the international stage, while emphasising an intention to remain neutral in case of war close to the country. By such a declaration of intentions, the country hopes that all belligerents will count on the country's territory as off limits for the enemy, and hence unnecessary to waste resources on.
Many countries made such declarations during World War II. Most, however, became occupied, and in the end only the state of
Republic of Ireland,
Portugal,
San Marino, Spain, Sweden and
Switzerland (with Liechtenstein) remained neutral of the European countries closest to the war. Their fulfillment to the letter of the rules of neutrality have been questioned: Ireland supplied some important secret information to the
Allies; for instance, the date of D-Day was decided on the basis of incoming Atlantic meteorology secretly supplied to them by Ireland but kept from Germany. Also, German pilots who crash landed in Ireland were interned, whereas their Allied counterparts usually went "missing" close to the border. Sweden and Switzerland, as embedded within Nazi Germany and its associates, similarly made some concessions to Nazi requests.
However it should be noted that the neutrality of some countries now in the
European Union is under dispute, especially as the EU now operates a
Common Foreign and Security Policy. This view was supported by the
Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen, on 05/07/2006 while speaking to the European Parliament as Council President;
"Mr Pflüger described Finland as neutral. I must correct him on that: Finland is a member of the EU. We were at one time a politically neutral country, during the time of the Iron Curtain. Now we are a member of the Union, part of this community of values, which has a common policy and, moreover, a common foreign policy." European Parliament Debate (English Translation)
See also
External link
Neutral country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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