Returning the Kosovo recognition decision: Washington Seeks to Stop Trend

Wayne Madsen/ Strategic Culture Foundation

The United States of America and most NATO countries have not only given Kosovo diplomatic recognition, even with Serbia's opposition, but have pressured other countries to recognise independence. The process has stalled, despite false diplomatic letters from various countries that they decided not to recognise independent Kosovo anymore. The worlds of international diplomacy and false news have already become one.

Donald Trump's administration, which is increasingly getting a neo-conservative sense, with people like John Bolton at the head of the National Security Council and Richard Green, which is exceeding hospitality as ambassador to Berlin, is monetizing diplomatic recognition in a way that would undermine diplomacy of signing Beijing and Typey checks.

Serbia with Ivica Dacic, the head of diplomacy, continues efforts to return the decision from the countries they have recognised, while Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli has made angry calls for these countries to clarify their position and possibly not approve Kosovo's non-recognition as a state. If that doesn't work, Kosovo will rely on the US, Great Britain and NATO to intervene. The diplomat Ping pong has affected the international recognition of the Arab Democratic Republic of Sahrawi-Western Sahara with its invaders. Morocco, which is ready to force states to reverse its decision to recognise what it describes as its province. With hypocrisy, as Washington and London insist on recognising Kosovo and continuing to follow the strategy for recognition, they are ready to allow Morocco to pressure states to sever diplomatic relations with the Western Sahara, which is a member of the African Union.

Ironically, as Morocco struggles in this direction, it has kept the decision on recognising Kosovo on hold, because it will not give the impression that it supports such breakaway states. The difference is that Serbia considers Kosovo a rebel province that unilaterally declared independence contrary to international laws. And the Western Sahara was never a legal part of Morocco. Before 1975, the Western Sahara was a colony of Spain.

Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations or of many specialised agencies. Opposition from major countries such as Russia and China and influential in the European Union as Spain and Greece have kept it out of the UN and organisations like World Health Organisation and U NESTO. Kosovo has managed to become a member of FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), thanks to the lobby highlighted by Washington, London and Berlin. At the end of 2017, Serbia had several initial successes in convincing nations not to recognise Kosovo. Among the first to do so were Suriname and Guinea Bissau. Early in 2018, Burundi followed suit. So does Liberia. This news brought about fighting diplomatic statements from Belgrade, Pristina and several world capitals. In June 2018, Liberian Foreign Minister Gbehohngar Milton Findley announced that his country is attracting recognition of Kosovo and declared it recognised Kosovo as the “Kosovo Serb province and Metohija”. From Pristina, Pacolli responded by stating he spoke to the Liberian government, which denied this was happening. By borrowing an expression from Trump, Pacolli called the news given in Belgrade “false news”. But Foreign Minister Findley was not a false foreign minister “” and he seemed to be speaking on behalf of his government in Monrovia. What happened next is like a comic scene. Pacolli flew to Monrovia from Kosovo and met with President George Weah. A former football player, Weah, according to sources from Kosovo, promised a friendly football match between Liberia and Kosovo and promised to open a Liberian embassy in Pristina. Apparently, Washington and London, which continue to support the Kosovo government -- a country where several criminal groups operate -- exerted pressure on Monrovian to cancel the decision to ignore Kosovo.

Confusion remains whether Liberia recognises Kosovo or not. One thing is certain, no Liberia Embassy has opened in Pristina. Despite what happened at the meeting between Pacolli and Weah, until early November 2018, Liberia, as well as Papua New Guinea, Dominique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Grenada, Lesotho, Komo and Guinea Bissau were listed as countries that officially attracted recognition of Kosovo. Kosovo also confirmed that the micro-state, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), which has headquarters in Rome and is diplomaticly recognised Kosovo. However, SMOM denied this. When Suriname withdrew Kosovo's recognition in 2017, authorities in Pristina wrongly declared that “international law has no concept of attracting recognition”. It is not clear which international law was referring to Kosovo, but the withdrawal or denial of recognition of a country's independence has been made all the time. Taiwan has also seen it happen, as has the People's Republic of China, the Arab Democratic Republic of Sahrew, Israel, Palestine, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The decline of several states also resulted in the withdrawal of recognition by other countries. This was the case with the Republic of South Vietnam (Viet Cong), the German Democratic Republic (East German German), Biafra, the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pamba, Sikkim, Tibet, Captati, the Kingdom of Sarawak, the People's Republic of Kampuchea, the Democratic Republic of Yemen, the People of Tannu Tagua, Transkei, Bophhatswana, Rhea, Gazcanculu, Rhodes, the Democratic Republic, the New Yorker, the Central City of Danzitek, the Souther, the Southwang City, the Souther and the Souther. In the unclear category are recognitions for Kosovo's independence from the “Republic of China” or Taiwan and two linked states of New Zealand, the Cook Islands and Niue. Kosovo did not return Taiwan's recognition because it wants to be eventually recognised by China. Niue and the Cook Islands apparently did not understand that they had recognised Kosovo, as the announcement came only from Pristina authorities. Apart from the United States and the United Kingdom, Turkey is working to expand Kosovo's recognitions. The diplomatic battle between Serbia and Kosovo continues to take place worldwide. In May 2018, Kosovo was alarmed by a statement in Belgrade by Ghana Parliament Speaker Aaron Mike Oquaye, that he will recommend the president of Ghana and the foreign minister to withdraw recognition of Kosovo. Oquaye spoke with love of historical ties between Ghana and the former Yugoslavia, prompted by close co-operation between Yugoslav President Josip Tito and Ghana's first president, Kwame Ncromah.

Serbia claims Pristina falsely claims that less than a dozen nations recognise Kosovo. Belgrade adds that Kosovo invents the establishment of diplomatic relations with other states. Welcome to the world where after the false <x0 warning”, “false diplomatic relations” are the new protocol.

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