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Serbia requests international legal opinion on Kosovo independence
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 08 - 2008


Serbia submitted a request on Friday for the UN
General Assembly to debate Kosovo's unilateral declaration of
independence and for the body to ask the UN world court to rule on
the issue, according to dpa.
Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said Belgrade would respect
and abide by an advisory opinion of the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on whether Kosovo's declaration of
independence in February was legal under international law.
Serbia, backed by Russia, has been fighting the secession of its
Kosovo province, but has ruled out use of force to keep the territory
that had been under UN administration since 1999. Since Kosovo's move
in February, 45 countries have recognized it.
Jeremic said there were similarities between Kosovo and the
breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia provinces of Georgia, but he
stressed the importance of resolving the Kosovo's independence
through diplomatic and legal means and not by military forces.
Russia, which has stressed Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo, has
been involved in military action since last week in Georgia after the
former Soviet republic attempted to reassert control over its
breakaway region of South Ossetia.
The events in Georgia were "very sad developments," Jeremic told a
press conference at UN headquarters in New York, where he held talks
with UN officials about Kosovo.
"We are the party seeking the ICJ's advisory opinion, we believe
in the ICJ and we'll respect its ruling," Jeremic said when asked
whether Belgrade would accept a ruling in favour of Kosovo's
independence.
Belgrade had been lobbying UN members not to recognize the new
government in Pristina, which since its declaration of independence
has also adopted a new constitution in June. About 40 governments
have recognized the independence, including the United States and
many European countries.
Jeremic requested that the UN General Assembly debate the issue of
Kosovo's independence, hoping that a majority of 192 members would
side with Belgrade. The assembly is scheduled to convene its 63rd
annual session in mid-September.
The first step taken by the assembly each year is to adopt a
agenda of discussion for the session. Jeremic said he was confident
that a majority of UN members will accept to including the Kosovo
issue on the agenda.


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