In December 2009, when Barack Obama was already being president at the International Court in The Hague held hearings on the request of the UN General Assembly, according to international law the unilateral secession of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo from Serbia.
Speaking in the debate, the U.S. representative Harold Koh Honjo said: "The United States calls on the International Court of Justice to leave the declaration of independence of Kosovo without modification, as an expression of the will of the people of Kosovo, or to refuse to comment on the legality or declare that international law does not prohibit the department."
The representative of Germany Susan Vasum Rainer suggested judges consider the case of Kosovo, taking into account the principle of effectiveness, that is, taking into account the situation on the ground. She said that the unilateral declaration of independence is not in contradiction with international law.
The representative of Austria Helmut Tichy said: "In international law there is no provision prohibiting the adoption of the declaration of independence and separation." Tichy said that Kosovo's declaration of independence adopted the "elected representatives, who expressed will of the people of Kosovo."
And finally, a masterpiece from the British representative Daniel Bethlehem: "Serbia has made it clear that she would never accept the independence of Kosovo, and Kosovo do not want to be part of Serbia. Courts can not force the warring couples stay married. "
The court listened to the arguments. July 22, 2010 at a public meeting in the Great Hall of Justice at the Peace Palace in The Hague announced he received ten votes to four decision that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate the principles of international law.
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