Fundamental rights of the state in international law are rights in the constituent part of the legal rules regulating the relations of the recognized subjects in the international community. International law has its own sources: general principles and customs in international law. The general principle is the legal principle of the most general nature, in common with all the legal systems of the states and without them there could be no legal order. Usual rules are specific only to international law and practice in practice by states and other subjects of international law and regulate their mutual relations. The most important subject of international law is a state that has its fundamental rights and duties. These rights can be absolute and acquired, cogitative and dispositive. Fundamental rights of the state are enshrined in the Declaration of the Seven Principles and the UN Charter. These rights: the right to self-preservation, the right to sovereignty, the right to equality, the right to international traffic, and the greatest attention is paid to the right to independence or sovereignty. In the contemporary world, the fundamental rights of the state are experiencing numerous changes.