Kosovo independence created inside NATO
Kosovo independence created inside NATO"
7 March 2008
No-one would have taken Kosovo independence declaration seriously were it a unilateral act, says Massimo D’Alema.
Kosovo independence “was not born out of a unilateral initiative by the Kosovo people, but came from within NATO. Were it a matter of a unilateral act, no-one would have taken the declaration of independence into consideration,” said the Italian foreign minister in the margins of the NATO summit in Brussels.
D’Alema said that that was the reason Italy opposed Abkhazia’s demands for independence from Georgia, reported Italian media.
Kosovo is not a precedent on the basis of which other territories can declare independence unilaterally, the minister said, adding that Kosovo was a sui generis case, as it was an international protectorate over which Serbia had not had sovereignty since 1999.
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