MIŠLJENJE MEĐUNARODNOG SUDA PRAVDE – PREOKRET U TUMAČENJU JUGOSLOVENSKE KRIZE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE DELIVERS ADVISORY OPINION ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE: A TURNABOUT IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS

Summary/Abstract: On July 22, 2010 the International Court of Justice /ICJ/ delivered an advisory opinion on Kosovo independence – Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, ruled the ICJ, did not violate the international law. For Serbia, this piece of news was a “heavy blow” /President Boris Tadic/ but not a definite defeat of and longstanding and counterproductive policy. The jurists who have worded the initiative for the ICJ and supported it wholeheartedly were disappointed most of all: they were surprised by “the opinion’s preciseness,” they said. It was obvious that everybody has looked forward for an opinion that each of the two sides could interpret as it suited it, an opinion that would make it possible for Belgrade to maintain the status quo or even coerce Kosovo’s partition.

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