Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-18-Speech-1-067"
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"Mr President, international law is quite clear on this point. As far as Kosovo is concerned a state is said to exist when, firstly, it has a population, secondly a territory and, thirdly, public services. There are no public services in Kosovo, and the Commission only needs to go there to see as much. The only service that operates there is the mafia.
A state is sovereign when it has full powers of authority. Proof, as the President of Parliament has just told us, that Kosovo’s powers of authority have been in a state of supervised sovereignty.
A state is sovereign when its authority is independent
in Greek, that is to say when it can decide for itself what it does. In Kosovo it is NATO and the United States that decide.
A state is sovereign when its authority is exclusive. Within the territory of Kosovo, however, there are several forces at work, not just a single one.
A state is sovereign when it respects the principle of
the inviolability of borders.
In other words, Kosovo does not meet any of the criteria required of a sovereign state under international law. And why? Because after setting up delinquent states and gangster states we are now inventing laboratory states where the European Commission tests and invents federalism by breaking-up countries."@en1
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