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Sovereignty refers to the possession of ultimate legal authority within a defined territory. It consists of two aspects: de jure sovereignty, which is the moral or normative claim to the right to govern a state, and de facto sovereignty, which involves having effective power to act as the sovereign.[1] Jurisdiction, as a concept of public international law, linked with the notion of sovereignty. It is what allows States to give effect to the sovereign independence which they are endowed with in a global system of formally equal States, through stating what the law is relating to persons or activities in which they have a legal interest.[2]