New York Times: ICJ opinion on Kosovo opens up contradictions
Commentaries and reactions in the world press on the ICJ decision highlight a dilemma - if a course is opened up for secessionist movements worldwide and if the Kosovo precedent imposes a need of reform of the international law?
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, July 26, 2010
New York Times points out that the ICJ avoided saying if, according to the international law, Kosovo is legal as an independent state, which is a carefully balanced compromised aimed at having both sides declare their victory in the dispute.
British media warned that this opens up a course for secessionists worldwide and every country in which separatist movements are active should be concerned about is future.
The Russian state agency writes that in the case of Kosovo, where Albanians expelled Serbs from their centuries-long homesteads in order to proclaim their own state in the end, it happened that international legal norms have been turned upside down, which, unfortunately, has been now confirmed by the International Court of Justice.
