Kosovar Unilateral Declaration

Kosovo (the legality of the Kosovar Unilateral Declaration of Independence)... 

The ICJ then turned to the merits of the question. First, the ICJ specified that the question had been asked clearly and precisely by the General Assembly. The question as posed involved the legality of the Kosovar Unilateral Declaration of Independence but it did not involve issues of statehood or recognition. Moreover, the Court distinguished between the Quebec secession case, in which the Court had been asked whether there were a specific right to effect secession under international law, and the present case, in which the Court was asked whether the declaration of independence was in accordance with international law. Thus ... 

I. King and W. Mason, Peace at Any Price, How the World Failed Kosovo, C. Hurst Co., 2006, pp. 36-38 (describing the circumstances leading up to the 1990 Kosovar Albanian Unilateral Declaration of Independence, and the lack of any significant effect in the world community of this first attempt at independence by the Kosovar Albanians). 

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