"KOSOVO IS NOT UNIQUE. THERE IS THE REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS" – EXPERT OPINION

Regnum, Russia
March 20 2007

REGNUM publishes an opinion of an eminent expert on the post-Soviet
space who chose to remain undisclosed, on the situation around the
"Kosovo precedent" and possibilities of its application to the
practices of the post-Soviet unrecognized states – Transdniestria
(Transdnestr), Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno Karabakh.

"The failure of the plan of ‘Kosovo issue settlement’ proposed by the
official Turkish lobbyist Ahtisaari – with whose biasness only the
pro-American players candidly put up – could scare only those who,
contrary to reality, were convinced that they would subdue Serbia,
deceive Russia, lull Kosovo, and satisfy the anti-European US game.

The truth is that any, any decision on the fate of the really existing
Kosovo is a catastrophic trap for the west. For any, any acting
and approved in all aspects of sovereignty status of Kosovo is a
progress and desired goal for the post-Soviet space. Even the formula
‘independence minus the UN’ intended for Kosovo, that is, the formula
of granting a real status WITHOUT solving the problem with Serbia (or
something similar) – presents the level of powers for the post-Soviet
self-determined states that has already destroyed, and will destroy
further yet, Moldavia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Naïve are those who
think that some decision on the status of Kosovo will be applicable
for the countries of the former USSR. Kosovo already exists, and the
precedent does not depend on senseless intelligentsia’s reflections of
‘crisis groups’ of all sorts.

Kosovo is not a unique precedent. There is de facto recognized by
the NATO countries – Turkey, Great Britain, France, the USA – as
well as by Azerbaijan, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. And this
example does not depend on the follies of Ahtisaari. The precedent
is comprehensively created by Turkey and Azerbaijan. And the whole
mankind has no other choice than to follow the example. Get ready."

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