Surlic: Hague judgment could be a strong argument for countries that have considered withdrawing recognition of Kosovo
Stefan Surlic, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, said that the chances were very slim that, because of the war crimes judgment against former KLA leaders, the leading European Union countries, together with the United States, would reconsider their recognition of Kosovo’s independence. However, he noted that if Serbia continued its campaign to secure withdrawals of recognition of Kosovo, the judgment could in the future become one of the stronger arguments for countries that had previously considered such a move and with which discussions on the issue had already taken place.