"The Outlook for the Independence of Kosovo"
In a statement before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said that the United States fully supported UN Special Kosovo Envoy Martti Ahtisaari's recommendations regarding Kosovo’s future status, adding that supervised independence was viewed to now be the only way forward.
“Kosovo's independence is a legitimate, fair and lawful outcome. While some have argued that independence would be a precedent for other separatist movements, we reject this notion completely. As with solutions to the other conflicts related to Yugoslavia's collapse, the Ahtisaari proposals are tailored to local circumstances and bear no relevance to other countries in Europe or other continents,” Burns said in his testimony.
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