The Serb request to test the legality of Kosovo independence at the World Court in the Hague,  according to the leader of the Liberal Party of Kosovo (PLK), Gjergj Dedaj, "not only is absurd, cynical, and offensive - but it once again in front of the people of Kosovo and the international community shows the shamelessness of the official Belgrade policy."

When Russia invaded Georgia and then recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, was it following the precedent of Kosovo? Interviewed by the BBC after the announcement of recognition, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, said:

Hesitations about the legitimacy of Kosovo’s right to independence are strange in the view of its self-governing status within the former Yugoslavia.

Vuk Jeremić, the young Foreign Minister of Serbia, is a globetrotting man on a mission.  He has circled the globe in the past few months, racking up an impressive number of visited world capitals.  Among them are Jakarta, Mexico City, Cairo, Tripoli, Beijing, Tehran, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Brasilia and Moscow.  Jeremić also attended the session of the Organization of American States in Medellín, Colombia and the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran and of the African Union in Egypt.