The principle of State sovereignty defines the supreme authority within that territory, which is managed by laws in which no other State has any legitimate right to interfere, either in the making or in the administration of those laws. Whether we like it or not, we cannot interfere in the administration of the law of another sovereign State, which has so often been the cause of tensions leading to the criminalisation of the Master. Article 2(1) of the United Nations Charter is so brief that it defies any misconstruction: