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The 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, which proclaimed the Republic of Kosovo to be an independent and sovereign state, was adopted at a meeting held on 17 February 2008 by 109 out of the 120 members of the Assembly of Kosovo, including the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, and by the President of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu (who was not a member of the Assembly). [1]
In April 2008 the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo adopted the new constitution which has entered into force on 15 June 2008. The Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo (the “Constitution”) defines the Republic of Kosovo as an independent, sovereign, democratic, unique and indivisible state whose sovereignty stems from the people.
The Republic of Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008, and has been partially recognized internationally.Serbia introduced a draft-resolution on 8 October 2008 in the UN General Assembly, which sought the opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's declaration of independence. [2]
On 17 February 2008, 109 individual members of the Assembly of Kosovo signed the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. On 9 April 2008, a Constitution of Kosovo was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo in what Serbian Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić called an "illegal act". [7] On 15 June 2008 the Constitution took effect by its own terms.
However, ultimate authority was, as was political power itself, vested in the UN-appointed administrator of Kosovo. The current Constitutional Court was established by the 2008 constitution, which came into effect months after Kosovo's declaration of independence. The Court heard its first cases in 2009.
He stated that Kosovo was under international administration for over a decade, and was the place of ethnic crimes in a bloody conflict; conversely, no such events engulfed Crimea before 2014. Furthermore, Kosovo remained independent, whereas Crimea was annexed by Russia, indicating that the real motivation of the latter was Russian irredentism.
Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia was enacted on Sunday, 17 February 2008 by a unanimous vote of the Assembly of Kosovo. [1] All 11 representatives of the Serb minority boycotted the proceedings. [2] International reaction was mixed, and the world community continues to be divided on the issue of the international recognition of ...