U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S TWO FACES
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 18 2007
Speaking at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign
Affairs, in the course of hearings devoted to the settlement of the
issue of the Serbian province’s status, the U.S. Deputy Secretary
of State Nicolas Burns stated, "the U.S. will recognize Kosovo’s
independence, as soon as the province’s population declares it".
Burns also said, "the U.N. Security Council has no authorities to
grant independence to anyone; the province’s inhabitants must declare
their independence".
According to the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Washington "has
started a number of discussions with Russia’s government to persuade
it to support the process, or at the least not to block it". "The
U.S. and Europe hope Russia will cooperate in supporting stability
and peace in the region", Nicolas Burns added.
A high-ranking official’s statement reaffirms the Armenian politicians’
idea that the main criterion to recognize a state’s independence is
its population’s expressed will. At the same time Burns’s statement
arouses a lot of questions, in part, why the opinion of the Kosovo
province’s inhabitants is much more important for the U.S. than the
opinion of inhabitants of other states, which are not the members
of the U.N.? If "the U.S. and Europe" are sure the realization of
the idea to grant the status of an independent state to Kosovo is a
guarantee of stability and peace in the region, then who is the author
of the idea that the independence of NKR, Abkhazia, Transnistria or
South Ossetia will cause destabilization of peace in the region?
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
