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De facto recognition of states, rather than de jure, is rare. De jure recognition is stronger, while de facto recognition is more tentative and recognizes only that a government exercises control over a territory. An example of the difference is when the United Kingdom recognized the Soviet state de facto in 1921, but de jure only in 1924.
De facto (/ d eɪ ˈ f æ k t oʊ, d i-, d ə-/, day FAK-toh, dee -, də -; [1] Latin: [deː ˈfaktoː] ⓘ; lit. ' in fact ') describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. [2] [3] It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with de ...
Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt was subject to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained the polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, starting from around 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. [5]
Other entities may have de facto control over a territory but lack international recognition; these may be considered by the international community to be only de facto states. They are considered de jure states only according to their own law and by states that recognise them. For example, Somaliland is commonly considered to be such a state.
In other cases, two or more partially recognised states may claim the same territorial area, with each of them de facto in control of a portion of it (for example, North Korea and South Korea, or the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China). Entities that are recognised by only a minority of the world's states usually ...
Date of de facto recognition Date of de jure recognition Notes — Afghanistan [26] — — Does not accept Israeli passports. 1 Albania — 16 April 1949 [27] Diplomatic relations established on 20 August 1991. [28] — Algeria [29] [30] — — Does not accept Israeli passports. [22] 2 Andorra — 13 April 1994 [31] 3 Angola — 16 April 1992 ...
Engineers from Britain and the United States have struck a mutual recognition agreement of industry qualifications and licences which is set to make it easier for professionals to work on either ...
De facto recognition. On 29 September 2010 the SADR Minister for African Issues Mohamed Yeslem Beyssat said referring to South Ossetia: “Western Sahara de facto recognizes the independence of South Ossetia. Now we have to formalise relations de jure, including the establishment of diplomatic relations". [74]