Three EU states to attack Kosovo's statehood at ICJ
Three EU states - Spain, Romania and Cypruis -- will in a UN court case in December argue that Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence was illegal, which will mark a shift from their passive to active resistance against Kosovo's "statehood".
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, October 19, 2009
They will join Serbia, Russia and China in giving anti-Kosovo depositions during hearings from 1 to 11 December at the UN's top legal body, the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The legal challenge - on the "Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo" - was brought by Serbia.
Spain, Romania and Cyprus together with Slovakia and Greece declined to recognise Kosovo's independence last year. But the group of three's involvement in The Hague procedure marks a shift from passive to active resistance against Kosovo statehood.
