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Portugal and Romania refuse to recognize Kosovo unilateral independence
15.12.2007 15:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Union is not ready to recognize
unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, Portuguese Prime
Minister Jose Socrates said.
"The answer is no" on immediate recognition of Kosovo independence,
said Socrates, who presided at the summit. "What we do now is
undertake negotiations in the United Nations Security Council."
The EU leaders agreed to send a 1,800-strong police and security
mission to Kosovo to replace the current United Nations administrative
mission.
Romania also refrains from recognizing Kosovo’s unilateral
independence. `Proceeding from the principle of territorial integrity
we can’t recognize unilateral proclamation of independence,’ said
Romanian President Traian Basescu.
Kosovo has been a UN protectorate since 1999, when NATO’s bombing of
the former Yugoslavia ended a war between Serb forces and ethnic
Albanians.