You ask them one thing, they answer something tenth.
You ask them how is it that Obama in his speech in Brussels said that the Kosovo split from Serbia, “followed a referendum organized in accordance with international law” when we all know that Kosovo declared independence without a referendum and without the consent of Belgrade.
U.S. Embassy in Belgrade needed two days to say something to the public that nobody asked: “Kosovo’s parliament declared independence in the legal framework of a legitimate democratic process under UN administration since all other options were exhausted.”
And where is the Kosovo referendum from Obama’s speech? It was for one time use to prove that the Crimea illegally seceded, unlike Kosovo.
Meanwhile, the crisis in Ukraine is intensifying, tensions rise, the eastern part wants to secede with referendum, similar to the Crimea. Kiev fears of Russian intervention.
Serbia has recently been busy marking the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing and the memory of the victims. Just three days ago in Grdelica by laying the wreaths was marked killing of 15 civilians, among whom were children. The exact number of dead is not known. They were killed in a passenger train by NATO missiles fired from never explained reason.
Just on that day NATO on its website sets that “air strikes” against Yugoslavia in 1999 derived “without specific Security Council resolutions.” With a delay of 15 years, this fact was for the first time publicly recognized in the Atlantic Alliance headquarters in Brussels.
The dates coincide, but it is not about belated remorse.
NATO attack on Serbia in 1999 was “fully consistent with international law,” it was announced to Beta in Brussels, and “factual points” published by NATO last week on the internet, “do not represent a change in NATO policy, but simply bring to the attention the well-known fact.”
In contrast to the Crimea, Kosovo’s parliament declared independence legally, says a statement of the U.S. State Department, as “previously all other options were exhausted”.
Kosovo has been named a unique case, to which no one can refer as a precedent to justify break away of other countries.
But then it turned out it is easier to say than to apply. Only in Europe now is following referendum on independence in Scotland, and it follows then in Catalonia. Catalans are calling on the Kosovo precedent; although Madrid paid special efforts not to give them the excuse to independence, by Spain never recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Kosovo.
Madrid tormented when explains that it acts according to the principles of international law. The same one that NATO and Washington have expelled through the Kosovo’s door and the very same expelled principles are now back through the window.
