Taiwan “recognizes” Kosovo, Corsican, Kashmiri separatists hail
Separatist movements worldwide have been hailing the Kosovo secession precedent, hoping it would make it easier for them to achieve their own goals now that the EU and the US have wracked key international principles on the matter.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Their reaction ridicules the EU/US assumption about the "uniqueness" of the Kosovo unilateral secession from Serbia.
Taiwan has "recognized" Kosovo, a move slammed by China which argued that it did not have any legal powers to do that.
The Independent Corsican Nation (CNI) on Tuesday welcomed with "delight" the unilateral declaration of the independence of Kosovo and the "brotherly Kosovo people".
"Our movement is aware of the courageous struggle that you and the Kosovo people have fought to overthrow the sham sovereignty that Belgrade wanted to impose with the rump status of autonomy which did not offer a single basic guarrantee to your people," CNI told Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in a letter.
CNI said that they hope that a delegation of the provisional Kosovo government would shortly take part in the International Days, an anual event held each August in Corsica.
The International Days, consacrated to nationalism in Corsica, rally separatist European organizations from the Basque country and Catalonia in Spain, the French Bretagne, Sardinia and Sicily, Tyrol and other regions in Europe.
In India's Kashmir, separatist politicians in Srinagar are seeing a good omen in Kosovo's secession.
Pro-independence leaders in Srinagar, buoyed up by the Kosovo declaration, have already started making calls for meting out similar treatment to Kashmiris by the international community.
Yasin Malik, Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) said, "The international community, particularly the European Union, should play a pro-active role now towards the resolution of Kashmir issue as they did in case of Kosovo."
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday reiterated India's position saying that the "territorial integrity of all countries should be fully respected by all states" and that the Kosovo issue should have been resolved by dialogue.
In Transdniestria, the breakaway region of Moldova, the Foreign ministry issued a statement on Tuesday in which it demands the earliest possible recondition of its own independence and points out that the declaration and recognition of Kosovo and Metohija had created a precedent for resolving similar conflicts.
"The declaration of the independence of Kosovo and the recognition that ensued has principled significance, as it creates a new model for resolving conflicts", the statement said.
