The degradation of diplomacy

Not even after nine years of state, Kosovo officially does not know how many countries it has recognised exactly, Koha Ditore writes today.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has never witnessed the list with the number of states that have recognised Kosovo. But they're definitely saying that this number has gone to 114 states. The paper has asked MPJ to make contact lists available, but its officials have said answers to the newspaper's questions could offer Thursday. But a list continues to figure at the state portal of the Republic of Kosovo. According to her, the number of states that have recognised Kosovo is 96. The last is recognition by Saint Kitts and Nevis on November 28, 2012.

It finds countries for which verbal grades have never reached, such as Nigeria and Uganda. These two “recognition” former Deputy Prime Minister Behgjet Pacolli, during Thaci's rule, had presented them on the fourth anniversary of Independence, on February 17, 2012. But the paperwork former Foreign Affairs Minister Enver Hoxhaj received from the two presidents of African states indicated they did not recognise Kosovo.