№ 66 - International Court of Justice Delivers Advisory Opinion on Kosovo Independence: A Turnabout in the Interpretation of the Yugoslav Crisis
№ 66 - International Court of Justice Delivers Advisory Opinion on Kosovo Independence: A Turnabout in the Interpretation of the Yugoslav Crisis

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): International Law, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: International Court of Justice; Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence;
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 defi nite 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. The hopes that Serbia would start “cohabitating” with the realities more constructively aft er delivery of the opinion have not come true.

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