BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’ foreign minister accused world powers on Tuesday of using double standards by refusing to accept the Catalan independence referendum while largely welcoming a separate Kosovo.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 – an announcement accepted by Washington and most EU states but rejected by Belgrade and its allies.
Almost a decade later on Sunday, voters in Catalonia backed independence from Spain in a referendum declared unconstitutional by the Madrid government. A day later Germany called the vote worrying, as other states fretted about their own separatist-minded communities.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-10-03/serbia-accuses-world-of-double-standards-over-catalonia-and-kosovo
