Russian MP: Kosovo situation is really unique, but can be a precedent

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk’s statement on Kosovo can be connected with the fact that Ukraine is trying to assent to the West because of its aspiration to NATO and the European Union, member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Foreign Affairs Andrei Klimov told a REGNUM correspondent today.

“Open a vocabulary. Precedent is an occasion or an event that took place in the past and can serve as an example or ground for analogous action in the present. A unitary state can disintegrate without approval of the UN Security Council grounding on an opinion of only one of the parties. It is a precedent, which is quite dangerous for Ukraine,” Klimov believes. “If there is such an initiative regarding Crimea and it is supported by some countries, not necessarily by Russia, Ukraine will have a lot of problems,” the MP cited the analogy. Klimov also noted that, according to expert estimations, if a precedent is established, within next 15-20 years 50-60 more countries will appear on the global map, and they would not be consignatory parties to any international treaties. “Attempts to establish states on athnic or language grounds is a dangerous way that can bring to a dead-end,” Klimov said.

As REGNUM reported earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, while speaking at a news conference at the first international forum in Kiev titled “Settlement of frozen conflicts in the context of security and stability in Black Sea area,” said that the situation in Kosovo is unique, so it cannot become a precedent for regions like Transdnestr, Ossetia or Nagorno Karabakh. Besides, Yatsenyuk stressed that there would be no conflicts analogous to those in Transdnestr, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in the Ukrainian territory.