Questions tagged [kosovo]
Questions relating to the government or politics of the Republic of Kosovo
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What is the purpose of Kosovo's Application Request to Join EU if several EU members do not recognize its independence?
At the end of 2022 Kosovo's leaders (..) signed a formal application seeking the status of candidate for membership in the European Union.
According to Wikipedia, five EU members do not recognize ...
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Why is there so much division in recognizing Kosovo as a sovereign state?
I find the phenomenon curious, that all other countries that don't have recognition as sovereign states by other countries fall into two categories:
Only recognized by a small number of countries (or ...
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Did some UNGA resolutions recognize Crimea as independent or part of Russia? Or Kosovo as part of Serbia, to this day?
Russia has accused "the West" of double standards with respect to secession/self-determination e.g. in 2018 Lavrov said:
"Despite numerous resolutions adopted by the UN General ...
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What does Kosovo need to do in order to become a fully independent country?
What are the steps that Kosovo, or, if it's not about them, other countries must do, so it can be recognized as an independent country?
In 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from ...
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What determines whether Western countries (and NATO) recognize separatist movements? (especially when comparing Kosovo and the Donbass)
Consider the following scenario:
there is a region in a country inhabited primarily by a different ethnic group than the majority of the rest of the country, and has been living there and composing ...
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Why does Montenegro recognise Kosovo, yet Bosnia does not?
As far as I understand it, Bosnia & Herzegovina does not recognise Kosovo & its unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 because of pressure from the sizeable Serbian ...
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Why is the separation of Kosovo from Serbia treated differently from the breakup of other Yugoslav nations from Belgrade?
When Yugoslavia began to split up, it didn't take more than a couple of years for the international community to recognize the splinter states as sovereign nations. If I understand correctly, this ...
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What level of control does Serbia maintain over Kosovo, if any?
Partially recognized states have wide varieties of levels of independence from the states that they declare themselves separate from, ranging from Taiwan having its own armed forces to Palestine not ...
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Why doesn't Russia recognize Kosovo if it uses the Kosovo precedent to justify annexing Crimea?
The Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea written in 2014 explicitly mentions Kosovo as a precedent for unilateral declarations of independence. This declaration of independence was ...
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Why does Russia back Serbia?
On YouTube, I heard Can Kosovo survive as an independent state?, which states that Russia prevents Kosovo from joining the United Nations (UN) because Russia backs Serbia, and Serbia doesn't want ...
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Why did the USA support Kosovo in the war against Serbia?
Wikipedia has quite an extensive article about the war in Kosovo, but it doesn't do a good job at explaining the rationale of the US/NATO joining the war. What was the official reason for escalating ...
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