EIP: The Law of States

© Prakash J. Mascarenhas
It is the Law of States that they are integral, even if their territory is non-contiguous, that a part or parts cannot break off without just cause, and that a part or parts cannot be seized and annexed by any other state without extremely extenuating cause.

The Indian Union itself is very loud and obsessive in proclaiming these principles, at every forum that is available to it, in order to reject the secessionists, etc. claims, mainly of the Kashmiri Muslims.

The Indian Union is so obsessed with this principle, that it even denies absolutely the right of a people to secede under any cause.

But in its aggression against Portuguese India, and its pretended annexation and incorporation of the same into itself, it has itself violated and acted against these same principles.

Therefore, we can freely and without any further thought, reject and put aside these claims, pretensions and criminal acts as being of no moral and legal value, except as crimes.
International Law has been centuries in the making. However, the establishment and acts, etc. of the United Nations Organisation has further catalysed the process. I, personally, do not accept the UN as being a sincere, impartial, neutral and democratic organisation: especially after its complicity in the acts of terrorism committed against Yugoslavia and the kidnapping and kangaroo trials of its ex-president Slobodan Milosevic. Nevertheless, its documents are nevertheless of great value.
Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote on the Goan Forum that: UN Resolution 1541(XV) of the 15th December 1960 as it is beyond my scope to explain it, but I understand that this resolution says: "All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development". The very next UN Resolution 1542 (XV) passed on the same date, includes the territories to which this resolution 1541 ought to apply, and that one includes the territories that came under the Estado da India Portuguesa. India was a signatory to these very same resolutions. Therefore, there ought to have been a plebiscite under the aegis of the UN, to determine:

whether Goans wanted to remain with Portugal,

whether the Goans wanted to be an independent state OR

whether the Goans wanted to join with India.

See General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV)
Further, (Francisco Monteiro & Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote that) the territories of the EIP are mentioned by the UN in its resolutions 1541(XV) & 1542 (XV) of 15th December 1960.

See UN Documents: Non-Self-Governing Territories, 1945-1999