{"id":1558,"date":"2008-02-18T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2008-02-18T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:48:24","slug":"the-recognition-of-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/the-recognition-of-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recognition of Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1f\/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg\/158px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"20\" hspace=\"20\"\/>So Kosovo hasn&#8217;t officially been recognized by anyone yet. <\/p>\n<p>But lots of countries are lining up to refuse to recognize it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSL1856553120080218?virtualBrandChannel=10005\">Azerbaijan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSSP3143120080218?virtualBrandChannel=10005\">Vietnam<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTP34030820080218?virtualBrandChannel=10005&#038;sp=true\">China<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSL1864522720080218?virtualBrandChannel=10005\">Spain<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aQzkaPhXqhdI&#038;refer=home\">Russia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSHAM84253620080218?virtualBrandChannel=10005\">Serbia<\/a> (obviously)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSL1856553120080218?virtualBrandChannel=10005\">Also<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i>Cyprus, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania have indicated they will not recognize.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Last I checked Cyprus, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain are all EU states. Seems like Brussels will have a problem if some people don&#8217;t want to play along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Kosovo hasn&#8217;t officially been recognized by anyone yet. But lots of countries are lining up to refuse to recognize it: Azerbaijan Vietnam China Spain Russia Serbia (obviously) Also: Cyprus, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania have indicated they will not recognize. Last I checked Cyprus, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain are all EU states. Seems like Brussels will have a problem if some people don&#8217;t want to play along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-kosovo","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-p8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}