World Court Rules Kosovo Declaration Was Legal

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/world/europe/23kosovo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kosovo's%20declaration%20of%20independence%20is%20within%20law&st=cse


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From: barry levine
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Subject: re: World Court Rules Kosovo Declaration Was Legal
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
  Those of us who still aspire to being governed by the rule of law
and not the rule of men must be disappointed that Kosovo is treated
"as a special case that should not serve as a precedent".  When we
signed the charter of the United Nations, we entered a treaty calling
for "national self-determination of peoples". That applies no less to
Tibetans, Chechen and Palestinians than to Kosovars, Algerians and
Jews.
Barry Levine