Moscow: Russia's paper to ICJ points to illegality of Kosovo's independence
Former Russian ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Alexeyev has said that the document which Russia has forwarded to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) represents a legal analysis of the invalidness of the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo independence which is being examined from the point of view of both international law and the UN Security Council resolution.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The Russian document is a legal paper which has no political statements or elements of any other nature, Alexeyev, who heads the 4th European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview for the Tuesday edition of the Belgrade daily Politika.
"The document demonstrates the invalidity of the (Martti) Ahtisaari plan and it examines the contradictions of current international relations, the relation between two principles of European security - territorial wholeness and inviolability of borders on one side, and the right to self determination on the other", he said.
Alexeyev added that the declaration of Kosovo independence, due to its political functionality, represented a direct violation of international law.
"This is very dangerous not in terms of international law, but also in terms of internal law, because such an act and its principles of political functionality violate the law", the former ambassador to Serbia said.
