All for One and One for All: Diplomatic Recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South-Ossetia
... and the Montevideo Convention, Russia would have also recognized Transnistria or Nagorno-Karabakh, and Western countries would have recognized other territories in the post-Socialist space instead of only pro-Western Kosovo. Spain — a member of the European Union and a NATO member state — is the only country in Western Europe that has not recognized Kosovo. This was initially because of objections to the legality of its unilateral declaration of independence under international law, and also due to concerns about possible implications of national independence movements. Spanish diplomatic reluctance underlines that recognition is correlated to domestic interests. Georgia — a pro-Western country — should logically ...