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Kosovo Independence

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Messenger: Ark I Sent: 7/22/2010 3:13:59 PM
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I don't usually reason here about issues related to the country of I ancestors, but recent news has caused I to want to say something.

As I have mentioned before, I am Serbian. Serbia has a province called Kosovo, and the people who took over the province declared independence a couple of years ago. So Serbia submitted something to the International "Court of Justice", for them to judge whether it was legal for a province to unilaterally separate from its country without negotiations from both sides.

It took the court a very long time to come to a decision, and when they finally announced it today, they completely dodged the question politrickster style.

They said that there is nothing in the international law that makes it illegal to "declare" independence, so in other words, it is not illegal to say "this region is independent". The real issue was whether it is legal or not for a province to separate from their country, not just to say they are separating.

If the court addressed the real issue of the inquiry, they would have probably had to say that it is illegal, but instead, (probably because of pressure from the US and some other countries)they used the technicality that it wasn't specifically asked if a province separating from their country is legal, it was only asked if the declaration of independence was legal.

The court itself said that they did not discuss the right to self-determination or secession, only the right of declaring independence.




Messenger: Eleazar Sent: 7/22/2010 7:31:11 PM
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US Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement in support of Kosovo's independence.

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"The vice president reaffirmed the United States' full support for an independent, democratic, whole, and multi-ethnic Kosovo whose future lies firmly within European and Euro-Atlantic institutions," the White House said in a statement after the two leaders met.

It said Biden also "reiterated the United States' firm support for Kosovo's sovereignty and territorial integrity."

Serbia lost control over Kosovo in 1999 when NATO bombed it to halt the killing of ethnic Albanians in a two-year counterinsurgency war.
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The United States and the European Union want Kosovo to join their sphere of influence. Serbia is also applying for EU membership.


Messenger: Ark I Sent: 7/22/2010 11:14:40 PM
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Here is a statement the ICJ made

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Turning to the arguments put forward by a number of participants concerning the extent of the right of self-determination and the existence of any right of “remedial secession”, the Court considers that the debates on these points “concern the right to separate from a State”. The Court recalls that “as almost all participants agreed, that issue is beyond the scope of the question posed by the General Assembly”. It notes that, to answer the question posed, it need only “determine whether the declaration of independence violated either general international law or the lex specialis created by Security Council resolution 1244 (1999)”.
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The current leadership in Serbia are basically Western puppets, I think they orchestrated the whole thing to run the way it did. They most likely discusses with their Western counterparts how they could formulate the question to avoid talking about the actual separation. There is no way the current leadership could remain in power without at least pretending to fight for Kosovo, because the Serbian population would vote them out otherwise. So they needed to find a way to give the appearance of fighting for it, and also have the benefit of a long "judicial" process to stall things so they could continue to resist action. And the last benefit to them, is to give one more reason why Serbia will not be able to get back Kosovo, in the hopes that over time, the Serbian population would give up on it.



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