Putin not to recognize Kosovo because of Crimea

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Proclamation of Crimea independence shall have no influence on Russia’s stance towards Kosovo, both domestic and foreign experts believe. .

Professor in the international law at the Faculty of Political Sciences Predrag Simic explains that Russia shall certainly not change its stance, i.e. it shall not recognize Kosovo.

- The Russian Embassy announced several days ago that it would not recognize Kosovo and that it respected the UN SC Resolution 1244. Actually, Russia has practically left to the USA to decide if the international law should be respected or separatist groups should be recognized from case to case – Simic says.

He explains that by recognition of Kosovo and the court’s stance, the UN Charter has been broken to pieces.

- The world started looking like a vehicle without a driver. That is why we have today ‘new Kosovo cases’, i.e. Abkhazia, Ossetia, Crimea and who knows what else in the years to come – Simic adds.

Tim Judah, a journalist of the London Economist and an expert in the Balkans says that the question if the decision by the Crimea Assembly as the one by Kosovo will result in any changes in international relations is ‘excellent, but nobody knows a reply to it’.

- The declaration on independence proclaimed by the pro-Russian parliament of Crimea and the Russian policy are nothing new. The Russian policy has changed since 2008 by recognition of the South Ossetia and Abkhazia. As we have seen that changed nothing in the Balkans – Judah says. Although Kosovo Government supports territorial integrity of...