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Diplomat: Putin’s Comment on Donetsk, Luhansk Supports Independent Kosovo

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Archive / News | 27.04.22 | access_time 15:43

Srecko Djukic, former Diplomat (Photo: printscreen/youtube/N1)

Srecko Djukic, a Serbian diplomat, said on April 27 that a comment by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the self-determination and independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics were based on a precedent made in Kosovo, was in fact the recognition of  Kosovo’s independence.

At an April 26 meeting with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the Russian president said that the two self-proclaimed people’s republics had become independent by analogy to a ruling by the International Court of Justice on Kosovo, which, as he put it, everyone supported. “Putin has effectively recognized the autonomy and independence of Kosovo, and everything Kosovo and its sponsors had done to make it happen,” Srecko Djuric, a former ambassador to Belarus and a member of the Forum for International Relations.

“The move is probably Moscow’s most important step in recognizing Kosovo, which surely makes it easier for Washington and the West at large to handle the issue,” the Serbian diplomat said. Serbia, as he put it, has again chosen a path oblivious to the interests of great powers, sitting blindly on two or three chairs in the pursuit of what turns out to be a mere ostrich policy.

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