2BBC News, "Crimea Crisis. Russian President Putin' s Speech Annotated", 19 March 2014. See http .//www.bbc. corn/ news/world -europe- 26652058.
3Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 2010, p. 403, para. 123(3).
4Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 2010, p. 403,paras. 78-121.
5Advisory Opinion, para.56.
6John R. Ablan, Signal and Affirm. How the United Nations Should Articulate the Right to Remedial Secession, 45 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2012), p.243.
7Advisory Opinion, para.80. Also see para.81.
8For example, see Nate Beal, Defending State Sovereignty. The I.C.J. Advisory Opinion on Kosovo and International Law, 21 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems ( 2012 ) , pp.554- 564.
9Advisory Opinion, para.80.
10Cedric Ryngaert, The ICJ' s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo' s Declaration of Independence. A Missed Opportunity?, 57 Netherlands International Law Review (2010), p.491.
