Kosachov: Kosovo is a “bomb for international law”
Kosovo’s potential independence is “a bomb” being planted under international law, the head of the Russian Parliament’s foreign policy committee Konstantin Kosachov has said.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Russia is currently protecting the law in both Europe and the whole world, and is trying to "deactivate that bomb," Kosachov said.
"Any such situation would logically have an impact on other territories, which will look to implement their interests, and each will be interpreted in favor of the principle of peoples' right to self-determination, not the principle of territorial integrity," he warned.
Pointing out that the Kosovo problem emerged as a result of the bombing of then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, without the U.N. Security Council's permission, Kosachov said that afterwards no one had mentioned the prospect of independence, adding that it was obvious why the West was acting differently in different situations.
"The geopolitical interests of the U.S. and their allies in NATO are the reason. In cases where NATO is keen to support its partners or potential partners in the bloc, the alliance judges one way, while in Serbia, where the vast majority of citizens are against NATO membership, it judges in another way, therefore Kosovo is to be backed as a potential NATO member," said Kosachov, who is also an influential official of the ruling United Russia party.
