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Kosovo is not Donbas, so analyze international experts after the recent statements of the Russian president who drew a parallel between the decision of recognition by Moscow of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent regions and the recognition of Kosovo by many countries.
But Matthias Hartwig, a German-based international law expert, says Kosovo meets the criteria for being an independent state, unlike the separatist regions of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk. According to him, a state can exist if it meets three elements: defined territory, permanent population and leadership capacity.
“Kosovo meets all three of these elements,” he said. “In the case of eastern Ukraine, Russia wants to form a non-existent state, as it is part of another state, and this is a major interference in the sovereignty of one state,” Hartig told Radio Free Europe.
In a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Moscow, Putin said the Donbas republics – as Donetsk and Luhansk are commonly known – acted in the same way as Kosovo declared independence.
“It is a fact that many Western countries have recognized Kosovo as an independent state. “We have done the same with the Donbas republics,” Putin said on April 26.
Meanwhile, the professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, Richard Caplan, says that the NATO intervention, to end the violence of the Serbian army in Kosovo, has had great support, unlike the case of Donbas.
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