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How many criteria for statehood does the Montevideo Convention list?
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- Population and territory are two of them.
- Four.
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4
Why
Four: a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter relations with other states. The absence of a fifth, recognition, is the deliberate content of the declarative theory of statehood.
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