Kosovo declared himself a "an independent and sovereign country

February 17, Kosovo declared himself a "an independent and sovereign country." All of a sudden, the international community should first do a thing clear: the recognition or non-recognition, in the form of state. On the 18th, the United States, France and Britain has formally stated that recognition of Kosovo's independence, while Serbia, Russia and Spain, and other countries has made it clear that not be recognized. According to reports, the Prime Minister of Kosovo Saatchi to the United Nations wrote to all 192 member states, and hope that they recognize Kosovo this "new birth of the country." But Saatchi also admitted that, in a recent independent recognition by more than 100 countries difficult. In other words, nearly half of the recent United Nations Member States will not recognize an independent Division.
Serbia is naturally opposed to the voice of the strongest. February 17 the same day, Serbian President Tadic said, "will never recognize the independence of Kosovo." On the 18th, the Government of Serbia adopted a more radical approach, decided to Kosovo three main leaders of criminal prosecution. Serbian Ministry of the Interior said in a statement, the Cypriot government has Saiyidiwu Kosovo President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker Kelashiniai Saatchi sued, accusing them of committing "undermining the constitutional order and Serbian security of serious crimes."
February 18, the 27 EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, the discussion focused on the Kosovo issue. After the meeting, the European Council in its "Kosovo resolution pointed out that" the EU on the Kosovo issue to play a leading role in urging the implementation of democracy and the rule of law in Kosovo to protect Serbs and other branches in the interests of minorities, the protection of religious and cultural heritage; welcome the international community in the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 on the basis of continued stay in Kosovo, Kosovo to maintain the stability of Kosovo is a special case, not create a precedent for the future, and so on.
It should be said that in these deal with the basic principles of the Kosovo issue, the EU member countries have reached a consensus. The key difference is that some EU countries because of their own ethnic separatism, so opposed to a unilateral declaration of independence in Kosovo. EU to adopt a flexible measures - not all members of the establishment of a timetable for reunification, nor of the European Union in the name of "collective recognition of Kosovo", but rather to allow member states according to their own actual conditions to decide whether and when to recognize Kosovo .