وممارسة هذا الحق قد مكنت شعوبا عديدة من الحصول على الاستقلال، مما زاد بالتالي من أعداد الدول المستقلة بالأمم المتحدة.
Regrettably, however, far from being universally applied, the right of peoples to self-determination continued to be flouted in Palestine, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the world; moreover, the exercise of the right to self-determination belonged only to peoples and not to their rulers.