Text tabled : B7-0187/2012

  Inês Cristina Zuber (GUE/NGL), in writing. – (PT) As we said at the time and as has been borne out by reality: the unilateral declaration of independence by the Serbian province of Kosovo was an extremely serious event and set a dangerous precedent in international law, with unforeseeable consequences for the stability of borders, particularly on the European continent. It was a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the Helsinki Accords, as well as an illegal decision under the most basic principles of international law. Reality has shown that the artificial creation of a ‘pseudo-state’ under ‘supervised sovereignty’ – whatever that might be – has been anything but sovereign. What it is, in fact, is a protectorate that was created and imposed using aggression and military occupation by the US, by NATO and by the EU, and that is maintained by KFOR, backed up by the European Union’s EULEX mission. It was an attempt by the United States and the major powers of the European Union to use the politics of fait accompli to perpetuate the political, economic and military domination of this extremely important region of Europe. This illegality has still not been acknowledged by many countries, including Member States, despite the desire expressed by the majority in Parliament for that to happen.