[Robert DeLong]

Depends on who you ask, actually. Serbia, Russia, & China do not recognize the independence of Kosovo. The International Court of Justice, a U.N. creation, did rule in 2010 that Kosovo was a sovereign nation.

[Mount Athos]

“The International Court of Justice, a U.N. creation, did rule in 2010 that Kosovo was a sovereign nation”

Hi Robert, what you posted here above is a really extreme misrepresentation of fact.
The ICJ did not rule that Kosovo is a sovereign nation.

Here is what it actually ruled.

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ICJ ruled that the declaration of independence of Kosovo did not violate international law “because international law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence... and that its authors were not bound by the Constitutional Framework (promulgated by UNMIK) or by UNSCR 1244, that is addressed only to United Nations Member States and organs of the United Nations.”

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In other words, the ICJ said that it cannot ever say that any declaration of independence ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AT ANY TIME violates international law, because there is no international law against declarations of independence.

So the ICJ didn’t rule anything specific to Kosovo at all, the only thing it noted is that the rules of the UN don’t apply to it because it is not a member state of the UN... Which is pretty much the opposite of what you implied.

Still today, Kosovo is not a member state of the United Nations.