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Kosovo play continues at international stages

Published Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 21:59
by Ari Rusila (637 views and 0 comments)

Coming week will be show again one significant step in international politics and especially in Western Balkans. 1st at its plenary session called for 8th October, the 192-member UN General Assembly is to debate Serbia’s draft resolution calling for an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence. 2nd EU tries again find some common position about Kosovo case and the forecast is that EU member-states will probably abstain from the vote at the UN. 3rd Portugal, Macedonia (FYR) and Montenegro are under huge pressure to recognize Kosovo independence.

UDI and ICJ in UN

Serbia has filed a draft resolution in which it asks from the UN General Assembly to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) of Kosovo. Belgrade has proclaimed two objectives with this initiative. The first, immediate goal is to have the ICJ provide its stand on the UDI and to stop the recognition of Pristina’s act by UN members. The second, mid-term objective is to have Belgrade and Pristina go back to the negotiating table on the status question.

Last week a trial vote revealed 120 of the 192 members gave their backing to Serbia's request to refer the matter to the ICJ, reported the German daily Handelsblat.

Why they say “no” to Kosovo’s secession

Nearly 50 countries has recognized Kosovo but over 140 not. Some of them have also stated that so far they will not make recognition at least before some conditions – like e.g. independence after Belgrade/Pristina deal – are reached.

If you want to have look to reasons why some countries are not pro-UDI of Kosovo, please follow the link.

Tags: Balkans, crisis management, ESDP, Kosovo, separatism, Serbia, UN