Putin Calls Kosovo Independence “Terrible Precedent”
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Russian president calls Kosovo’s declaration of independence a ‘terrible precedent’ that will come back to hit the West ‘in the face’.
“The precedent of Kosovo is a terrible precedent, which will de facto destroy the whole system of international relations, developed not over decades, but over centuries,” Vladimir Putin said in televised comments on Friday.
“They have not thought through the results of what they are doing. At the end of the day it is a two-ended stick and the second end will come back and hit them in the face,” he added.
Earlier on Friday, Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin warned Moscow could resort to military force ‘if the European Union works out a common position, or if NATO breaches its mandate in Kosovo.’
Russia, China, Spain and others, have rejected the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo which came on Sunday.
The United States, Britain, France, Germany and a raft of other EU states have not only recognized it but connived at and organized the whole operation in the aftermath of the breakdown of the former Yugoslavia–at the time the last remaining remnant of the former Warsaw bloc that had not kow-towed to the West.
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