The Beginning And The End Of Humanitarian Intervention: Kosovo 1999

摘要

At a few minutes after three in the afternoon of Sunday 17 February 2008, Kosovo Assembly Speaker Jakup Krasniqi called that body to order and began to read the short agenda for the extraordinary session formally summoned only three hours previously but widely anticipated in the media the day before. There were only two items to discuss, he said, and in fact he got no further than "Number one: approval of the declaration of independence" before applause erupted across the chamber and in front of TV screens across Kosovo.