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Montenegro’s independence vote is an
inspiration for Kurds
23.5.2006
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist, Netherlands
22.May
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Montenegro voted by a
slim margin to secede from Serbia and form a
separate nation, erasing the last vestiges of the
former Yugoslavia, according to the results today of
its referendum. This result could be an inspiration
for the largest nation in the world without a state.
The referendum of Montenegro got a lot of attention
from independence-minded people like the Basques,
Catalonians, who sent their reporters there.
With nearly all ballots counted, 55.4 percent of
voters chose to dissolve Montenegro's 88-year union
with its much larger and sometimes overbearing
Balkan neighbour.
That is just over the 55 percent threshold needed to
validate Sunday's referendum under rules set by the
European Union.
This case is very important for would-be states like
the Kurds. It shows the ambivalent position of the
international community towards the formation of new
stations. |
Vladimir van Wilgenburg
Journalist - Netherlands |
In 2005 the Kurds voted with 98.8% for independence
in South-Kurdistan (Iraqi). The results of this vote
were presented to the UN. But they didn’t recognize
the importance of this referendum organized by the
Kurdish Referendum Movement.
One Kurd said angrily:” I support them too
[Montenegro]. To hell with the UN, why doesn't the
right of self-determination apply to our 40 million
Kurds in our nation?”
The results of this referendum vote weren’t used by
the Kurdish parties, who prefer to stay in Iraq. The
Kurdish parties say that a Kurdish dream for
independence is unrealistic.
The current president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani
repeatedly called an independent Kurdistan a dream.
"No Kurdish officials in Iraq are working for an
independent Kurdistan. We are only trying to do
something that is possible and reachable," he said
before.
The Kurdish
blogger Hiwakan sadly wrote:” On this day, a
couple of days after the announcement of the
so-called new democratic religious Iraq, I
congratulate every Montenegrian citizen and once
again ashamed to be called Iraqi or even to be
linked to Iraq”.
A lot of Kurds in South-Kurdistan want to celebrate
like the independence supporters that flooded the
capital of Montenegro.
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