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Kosovo: Monitored Secession

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The conflict in Kosovo can be considered an ethno-territorial conflict par excellence, one which experts on the region identified as the Balkan’s “Gordian Knot” from early on. Kosovo (see Fig. 7.1) encompasses an area of 10,887 km2 and is home to approximately 2 million inhabitants. It was an autonomous province of the Republic of Serbia within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after 1974 that concurrently had equal status (just like autonomous Vojvodina) in the federal executive body as the six republics.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See UNMIK Fact Sheet, https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unmik. Cf. also the Reports on the United Nation Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) presented to the Security Council by the UN Secretary-General every three months since 1999: www.un.org/en/sc/documents/sgreports.

  2. 2.

    Security Council Resolution 1244 (10 June 1999), SC/RES/1244 (1999), www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/99sc1244.htm.

  3. 3.

    European Commission (1999), Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (Cologne Document), 10 June, www.stabilitypact.org/constituent/990610-cologne.asp.

  4. 4.

    See UNMIK Regulation 2001/2009, www.unmikonline.org/constframework.htm.

  5. 5.

    See Kosovo Assembly Elections (2007), www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/38260.

  6. 6.

    See Kosovo Declaration of Independence, Sunday, 17.02.2008, www.assembly-kosova.org/?cid=2,128,1635.

  7. 7.

    See Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, www.kushtetutakosoves.info/repository/docs/Constitution.of.the.Republic.of.Kosovo.pdf.

  8. 8.

    Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo, Advisory Opinion (July 22, 2010), www.ici-cij.org/docket/files/141/15987.pdf.

  9. 9.

    One precedent that was named time and again was introduced by German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger at the end of 2007 which referred to the fact that the two German states conducted talks and negotiations in 1972, even though the Federal Republic of Germany at that time did not recognize the Democratic Republic Germany.

  10. 10.

    Adopting Consensus Resolution, General Assembly Acknowledges World Court Opinion on Kosovo, Welcomes European Union Readiness to Facilitate Process of Dialogue, GA/10980, 9 September 2010, www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/ga10980.doc.htm.

  11. 11.

    Interview in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 March 2013: 5.

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    Translation of an entry in the weekly magazine “Nin”, quoted according to Michael Martens: Die Kosovo-Lüge. Serbiens Ministerpräsident ist ein alter Milošević-Mann – und bricht ein nationales Tabu, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12 March 2013: 5.

  13. 13.

    Report of the UN Secretary-General on the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, S/2014/558: 2.

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Schoch, B. (2020). Kosovo: Monitored Secession. In: Babayev, A., Schoch, B., Spanger, HJ. (eds) The Nagorno-Karabakh deadlock. Studien des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25199-4_7

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