a political authority.State practice[සංස්කරණය]මේවාත් බලන්න: Diplomatic recognitionState practice relating the recognition states typically falls somewhere between the declaratory and constitutive approaches.[13] International law does not require a state to recognise other states.[14]Recognition is often withheld when a new state is seen as illegitimate or has come about in breach of international law. Almost universal non-recognition by the international community of Rhodesia and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus are good examples of this. In the former case, recognition was widely withheld when the White minority seized power and attempted to form a state along the lines of Apartheid South Africa. A move which the United Nations Security Council described as the creation of an "illegal racist minority régime".[15] In the latter case recognition was wildly withheld from a state created in Northern Cyprus on land which was illegally invaded by Turkey in 1974.[16]De facto and 