Serbia Requests Advisory Opinion of the ICJ on Kosovo

The General Assembly met on 8 October 2008 to take up a draft resolution submitted by Serbia containing a request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on whether the 17 February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo is in accordance with international law.

In initiating the resolution, Serbia had responded to Kosovos unilateral declaration of independence on 17 February with maximal restraint, said Serbian Minister for Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremić, as he introduced the text. The resolution was asking the 192-member Assembly to convey its request to the Court--the United Nations highest judicial body--for an advisory opinion, in line with its powers under the Organizations Charter.

Sending the question to the Court would prevent the Kosovo crisis from serving as a deeply problematic precedent in any part of the globe where secessionist ambitions are harboured, he explained. An advisory opinion would provide politically neutral and judicially authoritative guidance to many countries still deliberating how to approach such unilateral declarations.

Support of this resolution would reaffirm a fundamental principle: the right of any Member State [] to pose a simple, basic question--on a matter it considers vitally important, to the international court, he said, adding that a vote against the text would deny the right of any country-now or in the future-to seek judicial recourse through the United Nations system. The question posed is amply clear and refrains from taking political positions on the Kosovo issue.

With that, the draft received support from a geographic mix of countries, including Europe, Africa, South America and the Caribbean and the Middle East, with delegates backing the measure out of respect for international law, the United Nations Charter, States right to request an advisory opinion-particularly on sovereignty matters-and the Courts position as the appropriate judicial body for ruling on such highly complex matters. Algerias representative also underscored that the draft contained no political or controversial elements.

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• Kosovo independence
• Vuk Jeremić
• United Nations
• General Assembly
• International Court of Justice

[bastianwence]

@lonizzcertified lol

[lonizzcertified]

How'd that ICJ opinion go? lol

[TREY5550]

ma daj ba, serbia lost kosovo, - serbia lost ICJ - serbia lost everything. pa, what is serbia for country? what? it is NOTHING A LOSER. JEBEM TE SRBIJA

[Anticccckillcccc]

hahahahha mr jeremic it shows they you smoll balls dont metter on icj ruling u sick fuck

[LANO500]

Kosovo won motherfucker!!! Hahah you jeremic and your goverment eat a DICK!!!

[zingostar]

so what will the ICJ ruling state tomorrow favour in kosovo or serbia??