And what color is Kosovo?
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“And what color is Kosovo?”
Kosovo is currently shown as an independent state on Official U.S. maps since Ksosovo obtained independece from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the United Nations UNMIK mission and the NATO KFOR mission. Previously, Kosovo has been more or less an autonomous province within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Serbia’s 1912-1913 conquest of Kosovo never officially annexed Kosovo to the Kingdom of serbia, because Serbia’s 1903 Constitution never authroized such an annexation, so Serbia occupied Kosovo until later events made Kosovo an autonomous province within Yugoslavia, often with an autonomous legislative body. With the breakup of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro attempted to usurp authority over all of the other autonomous governments of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, but failed to do so when the other autonomous governments rejected the claims of usurpation of their governments, including the autonomous government of Kosovo. To halt the bloodshed resulting from the attempts by Serbia to impose its government upon the other autonomous governments of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, UNMIK and the NATO KFOR intervened to halt the fighting by all sides of the conflict. The already autonomous government of Kosovo then exercised the authority it already possessed as an autonomous province and government within the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia to enforce the autonomy of its government from the usurpation of its government by the aggressions of Serbia. In the wake of the dissolution of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Kosovo’s existing autonomy resulted in its authority to choose full independence versus adopting dependence on Serbia, Montenegro, another former government within the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, or Albania. This was accomplished within the authority of the Constitutional laws of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, the United Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and other international law. Consequently, the subsequent independence of Kosovo on official maps is fully consistent with international law.