Analysts: EU report deals a huge blow to recognitions of Kosovo
The EU-sponsored report on the war in Georgia deals deals a huge blow to recognitions of Kosovo, analysts say.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, October 02, 2009
"This robust proposition would appear to put a huge dent in the recognition by most EU countries of Kosovo", says former UK ambassador to Serbia Charles Crawford.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the Serbian government seized on this report in their campaign to have Kosovo's Unilateral Declaration of Independence deemed illegitimate", argues Joshua Keating at his Foreign Policy blog.
Cato Institute's Doug Bandow says that "for the West, which attacked Serbia in 1989 in order to detach Kosovo from Belgrade's control, to complain about Moscow's support for South Ossetian and Abkhazian independence is rather rich in hypocrisy. Washington cares about the territorial integrity of nations only when it's convenient".
Niall Green underlines that "the report commented that the independence of these territories (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) had no authority under international law and that Moscow should respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia. It is worth noting that this same principle applies to the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, which the US and most of the EU countries have recognized against the protests of Belgrade."
