The Aaland Islands Question: Report Submitted to the Council of the League of Nations by the Commission of Rapporteurs
The International Committee of Jurists of the Council of the League of Nations
League of Nations Doc. B7/21/68/106 (1921)
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The Aaland Islands, a Swedish-speaking archipelago within Finland, sought to secede and join Sweden to protect their language and culture, drawing an analogy to Finland's own earlier independence from Russia, while Finland offered guarantees of cultural and linguistic protection along with existing statutory autonomy over local schools and language administration.
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Whether a minority group within a de jure country has the absolute right to separate itself from that country to join another country or declare independence.