Kosovo ICJ Case

The United Nations General Assembly has received Serbia's proposal for a motion to question the legality of Kosovo's independence at the International Court of Justice. The representer of Serbia is a leading legal expert from Serbia and Montenegro, a Serbian Academist and probably one of the most known members and leaders of the Hungarian intelligence in Vojvodina, by the name of Tibor Varadi.

Originally Serbia acquired assurance from most African and Arab states in a foreign diplomacy offensive and France declared that it shall gather the European Union to stop Serbia from submitting the resolution, while certain French politicians and several other European proposed stopping Serbia's European integrations (as if they haven't already reached a stalamate).

However a shock came when Sweden called all European countries not to oppose Serbia's motion, which made a turn of events. Condoleeza Rice also confirmed that the United States of America will not oppose it.

Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci called this an another expansionist trick from Belgrade, and expressed assurance that the world will not fall for it, calling all countries that so far recognized Kosovo's independence and all those who indend to do so to oppose Serbia's motion. He is certain that Serbia's motion will fail and that the result of it will be a confirmation that Kosovo is internationally recognized.



Kosovo is recognized so far by a total of 47 out a total of 194 countries. More than half a year have passed since the recognition, and Thaci's claims that over 100 countries will recognize Kosovo's independence within a month have turned to be incorrect, while the Serbian Foreign Ministry's statement that more than 100 foreign ministers have written personal assurances that they won't recognize independence of Kosovo (although it also included Turkey, lol) have turned out to be true. The US has so far been overly critic of the Kosovar government for doing a very poor job at lobbying recognition of independence, despite a quite big availability of funds from the West.


Edited by Yugoslav - 18-Sep-2008 at 12:46

Not sure that they will have a chance at the security council. That is one reason why the U.S. stayed away from it in the first place when they were pushing for independence. A kind of catch 22. Only in this case it would most likely be the U.S. threatening the veto. 

Originally posted by es_bih Not sure that they will have a chance at the security council. That is one reason why the U.S. stayed away from it in the first place when they were pushing for independence. A kind of catch 22. Only in this case it would most likely be the U.S. threatening the veto.

The Security Council takes no part in this.

Originally posted by es_bih Just hard to actually get this going without the Security Council - the rest of the UN is a clubhouse without much pull when the top players don't agree.

Yes, but actually revoking Kosovo's independence isn't even the goal of this.

The precise point is Serbia's internal stability. If this passes, the problem will cross from the sphere of politics into law, and finally, after so many tiresome years, Kosovo will stop to be on daily light in the Serbian political world and no one will ramble about it every day, and the country will be able to concentrate on realizing other problems (cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, finding the money to finance all these retirement raises, the European reforms and fighting corruption). The SAA needs to start (unilateral) implementation, there are important changes in the structure of the country as Fiat is moving to Serbia and there are new highways that need to be finished.

Next to that, this would eventually slow down the process of Kosovo's recognition of independence, or even eventually stop it (with occasionally one country recognizing Kosovo every year out of political interests with Washington for an example). For example Montenegro's opinion on the recognition of Kosovo's independence is based upon the UN General Assembly's vote, while it will probably not stop (eventually) Macedonia.

Originally posted by Carpathian Wolf The reaction in Albania and Pristina will be very interesting to see to say the least.

You already have the reaction.

Originally posted by Yugoslav Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci called this an another expansionist trick from Belgrade, and expressed assurance that the world will not fall for it, calling all countries that so far recognized Kosovo's independence and all those who indend to do so to oppose Serbia's motion. He is certain that Serbia's motion will fail and that the result of it will be a confirmation that Kosovo is internationally recognized.

Some good news for Serbia. 

Apparently, 120 (62.5%) of the Member States will vote for Serbia's motion, comprising mostly the countries that oppose the recognition of Kosovo's independence.

Originally posted by Carpathian Wolf The question is what kind of weight will this carry. If America's economy continues to faulter I don't think they would do much to stop the KLA government from being demolished.

That's a myth. It's the American people that is hit, not the government.

Resolution passed by a 92.77% majority of those who voted (opposed to 7.23%).

Yugoslav, what do the colours on your map stand for?