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July 23 2010
Baku says UN legal ruling on Kosovo sets no precedent
Fri 23 July 2010 | 13:58 GMT Text size:
Elkhan Polukhov The Foreign Ministry has commented on the UN court
ruling that Kosovo's declaration of secession from Serbia did not
break international law.
The International Court of Justice in the Hague announced the ruling yesterday.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said that
Kosovo could not be used as a precedent.
"First of all, the resolutions of the UN International Court are
recommendations and have no binding force. Second, the UN
International Court has not yet responded about the legitimacy of the
creation of Kosovo as a state," Polukhov told 1 news.az.
"We can also stress the fair arguments, voiced by the Russian Foreign
Ministry, which said in its statement yesterday that the UN
International Court did not consider the legitimacy of the unilateral
proclamation of independence by Kosovo, did not refer to possible
implications of such a proclamation and did not say whether Kosovo was
a state or not," the spokesman continued.
Polukhov noted that unlike the Kosovo issue, which was being dealt
with by the UN, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh was being resolved through the mediation of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Countries with secessionist movements are viewing the ruling with alarm.
1 news.az
From: A. Papazian
July 23 2010
Baku says UN legal ruling on Kosovo sets no precedent
Fri 23 July 2010 | 13:58 GMT Text size:
Elkhan Polukhov The Foreign Ministry has commented on the UN court
ruling that Kosovo's declaration of secession from Serbia did not
break international law.
The International Court of Justice in the Hague announced the ruling yesterday.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said that
Kosovo could not be used as a precedent.
"First of all, the resolutions of the UN International Court are
recommendations and have no binding force. Second, the UN
International Court has not yet responded about the legitimacy of the
creation of Kosovo as a state," Polukhov told 1 news.az.
"We can also stress the fair arguments, voiced by the Russian Foreign
Ministry, which said in its statement yesterday that the UN
International Court did not consider the legitimacy of the unilateral
proclamation of independence by Kosovo, did not refer to possible
implications of such a proclamation and did not say whether Kosovo was
a state or not," the spokesman continued.
Polukhov noted that unlike the Kosovo issue, which was being dealt
with by the UN, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh was being resolved through the mediation of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Countries with secessionist movements are viewing the ruling with alarm.
1 news.az
From: A. Papazian