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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE ADVISORY OPINION issued by the International Court of Justice last June said that "the declaration of independence on the 17th of February 2008 did not violate general international law"; the Court, however, refused to recognize Kosovo as an international legal subject1 thus driving the Kosovo issue into a legal impasse. The Albanian authorities of Kosovo which looked forward to a prompt international recognition were disappointed: only two UN members (Honduras and Kiribati) joined the countries which had recognized Kosovo's self-proclaimed independence. Today there are 71 of them.2 In an absence of a more or less coherent EU Balkan policy, the contradictions between the Serbs and Albanians can be hardly settled within the framework of its integration models. On the one hand, Brussels accelerates negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina under supervision of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; on the other, it destabilizes the situation in conflict zones elsewhere.
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