Bucharest, July 23 /Agerpres/ - Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on Friday said that two thirds of the international community has not recognised Kosovo, a stance that Romania has steadily taken. "Currently, a majority of the EU member states recognise Kosovo. At the same time, in the international community, out of the 192 UN member states only 69 have stated themselves in favour of recognising this entity," Baconschi said in a statement at the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) on Friday evening.

He showed that, when the EU has done a first reading of the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Romania expressed European solidarity by accepting the language used in the communiqué released by the European Union.

"Today, we unequivocally repeated our position on not recognising the statehood of Kosovo, a stance that Romania has constantly voiced over the past years, as well as the need for an internal analysis by the Ministry of each paragraph in the long text of the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice," the minister added.

Baconschi explained that this advisory opinion is studied in detail by MAE experts in public international law, because it is a complex document which refers to a variety of specific issues that require thorough analysis.

He pointed to what he called an issue of "utmost importance to the outcome of this internal analysis," namely that the language of the question on the legality of the Kosovo self-independence did not allow the ICJ to consider the merits of the question.

"In other words, the Court examined the legality of the action of making a declaration of independence, without examining the legal consequences thereof, that is the legality of the establishment of an allegedly new state," Baconschi said.

He added that the ICJ advisory opinion mentions the narrowness and specificity of the question, saying that the question does not ask about the legal consequences of that declaration. In particular, the question does not ask whether or not Kosovo has achieved statehood. Nor does it ask about the validity or legal effects of the recognition of Kosovo by those states that have recognised it as an independent state.

"Romania remains loyal to the international law and its strict and full observance, because international law is the core fundamental of the foreign policy promoted by Romania," Baconschi concluded.

According to the Romanian chief diplomat, Romania has taken note of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice concerning the accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence by the provisional institutions of self-government of Kosovo, issued by the ICJ on July 22.

[Source: Romanian National News Agency AGERPRES ]