PART 2 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ASPECT OF THE OCCUPATION OF ARC AND THE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL by the parties), which in turn implies the need for application to these territories of provisions of the international humanitarian law. By its actions of forced seizure of the government bodies and the occupation of the Crimean peninsula (for more detail see Part 1) Russia has violated the basic norms of the international law, in particular, those set out in the following documents: UN 11 Charter (26.06.1945, Part 4 of Article 2) , the Declaration on Principles of Interna- tional Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accord- ance with the Charter of the United Nations (adopted by the UN General Assembly 12 13 Resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24.10.1970, Principle 1) , the 1975 CSCE Final Act . In addition, the actions of the Russian Federation in accordance with the interna- tional law qualify as an act of aggression (UNGA Resolution ‘DeR nition of Aggres- sion’)14. And the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation does not consti- tute grounds for legal succession. 2.1. International Legal Documents 2.1.1. The Resolution of the UN General Assembly ‘De> nition 15 of Aggression’ Date and number: 14 December 1974, No. 3314 (XXIX). Content: Regardless of a declaration of war, the aggression is the invasion or attack by the armed forces of a state of the territory of another state, or any military occu- pation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any annexa- tion by the use of force of the territory of another state or part thereof, the use of armed forces of one state which are within the territory of another state with the agreement of the receiving state, in contravention of the conditions provided for in the agreement or any extension of their presence in such a territory beyond the ter- mination of the agreement; the sending by or on behalf of a state of armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against an- other state of such gravity as to amount to the acts listed above, or its substantial involvement therein. 11 http://www.un.org/ru/charter-united-nations/index.html 12 http://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl_conv/declarations/intlaw_principles.shtml 13 http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/994_055 14 http://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl_conv/conventions/aggression.shtml 15 http://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl_conv/conventions/aggression.shtml 20