An Abkhaz Perspective

Abkhazia after Kosovo

Author(s): Viacheslav Chirikba
Editor(s): Jeronim Perovic, Robert Orttung, Matthias Neumann, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 40
Pages: 14-16
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2008

The Kosovo case opens up a new chapter in the modern history of admitting states into the international community, as this province was recognized against the will of its mother state, Serbia. Now, after Kosovo, one can hardly off er any more or less reasoned explanation as to exactly why the already 15 year-long de facto independence of Abkhazia, unlike the independence of Kosovo, cannot be recognized by the international community.

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