16 have so far: Afghanistan Costa Rica Albania Turkey Australia Latvia Germany Italy Malaysia Denmark Luxembourg France Senegal United States UK Estonia

This answer could be obsolete in a few weeks, because we are talking about a present event. "The Kosovar Assembly approved a declaration of independence on 17 February 2008. In a following day several countries (United States, Turkey, Albania, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Australia, etc.) announced their recognition, despite protests by Serbia and Russia in the UN Security Council. Several countries in the region (Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Greece) are undetermined on or will not recognize independence at this time either for internal reasons or in fear of damaging relations with Serbia." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Declaration_of_Independence.2C_2008 "1 Recognition from states 1.1 States that formally recognise the independent Republic of Kosovo (16) 1.1.1 Partially recognised states that recognise the independent Republic of Kosovo (2) 1.2 States that have initiated proceedings to recognise the independent Republic of Kosovo (16) 1.3 States that have declared that they will not recognise Kosovo as independent (16) 1.4 States which have expressed concern over unilateral moves or expressed wish for further negotiations (8) 1.5 Other states, including undecided or ambiguous positions (25) 2 International organisations 3 Other entities 4 Diplomatic reaction of Serbia " Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reaction_to_the_2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence

Thank you for understanding. I am frustrated with the fact that a country is allowed to be called Macedonia which is a region of Greece and has a very important factor not only in historical terms but cultural to. The main point of this problem is that once they are allowed to be called Macedonia they will try to make their own all the history which contains this area, for example Alexander the Great.

Answer: Countries whose leaders break international laws, and are then surprised when international law breaks down, which it has.

43 countries! 4.6.2008

As a professor of law, I am worried for the international community, international law and the whole “world order” as it is if Kosovo really is fully recognized. Currently things are looking good, since only 1/3 of the words countries have recognized it and I hope it stays so or even for some to take back the declaration of recognition. I have talked with many colleagues, even with some from the countries that have recognized the independence. Only one in five don’t agree with the rest that this situation is dangerous and that it could and certainly will lead to some sort of unrest and more tensions in that region in spite the U.S. claims that this is the “ending chapter in Yugoslavia’s breakup” which would lead to peace in the region. Putting aside that this is all based on professional observation I also agree that Kosovo should be brought back to Serbia and given autonomy to function as an autonomous province, but never as a republic, because that is against every UN resolution in power, against the legitimate constitution of Serbia, and can not be included in any international organization unless it is fully recognized, but it is clear that Belgrade will never let that happen. There are two conclusions: 1.) Return Kosovo to Serbia’s control and stop similar braking of international law worldwide and prevent tensions which could lead to war (remember that about 40% of Serbian voters supported the extreme-right-wing Radicals, while less then that supported the Democrats which luckily united with the socialists to win over power and prevent escalation of violence that Radicals have no regrets using). 2.) Risk destabilization of more and more regions worldwide and in some of them the next stage is, certainly, war. Kosovo is pitiable as a country. It has just enough money to make 100km of road and that is all. It is nor legal, nor safe, nor practical, nor needed and especially not allowed (by the 1244 UN resolution) to even call it a Republic and yet think of recognizing it. The Titans in the control of the World will not listen, but we are afraid for the future of Europe and indirectly the future of the World from the day Kosovo gets any closer to independence because it is a slow burning fuse and in the end is the unknown instrument of the unknown chaotic potential. On behalf of my colleagues and myself, professors of law in Worlds Universities, institutions, courts, both private and public organizations, we appeal to the world nations to think through all scenarios and never ignore the international law, because without it, World peace that we have been working on for more then 50 years might go down the drain because we argued over something that is not ours to even argue over. Just let Serbia handle its jurisdiction guaranteed to it by the UN 1244 resolution and its constitution.

Francis Boyle's statement is extremly wrong and he is not "neutral" in his way of thinking. It doesn't take a brainsurgery to understand that he is 100% pro-serbian. Personaly I'm not pro anyone of these two people, for exampel it's right that provinces can not just brake away, but if the majority of the people living in that province is murdered, disscreminated and are not aloud to have schools in their language, then those people have MORAL RIGHT to brake away. Mr Boyle says international law is the mos important, but remember that even those laws are made by us humans, and not by some God,,so even those laws are not always correct! // Salvatore Baggio