There were different tournaments, which gave out the motion “THB in independent Kosovo”. Kosovo is one of the rare cases, where you can test your debate plan in the reality and see, how it works.

Obviously, the most used arguments against independent Kosovo were that Russia and China, two SC Un members will never allow that. And obviously it was right. They are strongly opposing it, and I heard news that Russia is threatening to use some kind of violence. That will be interesting.

The second argument that was more or less always used was that the Serbian people will not allow that. And obviously, we have all seen the destroyed Embassies (and police running away from them) and again, the debaters were right.

“Kosovo is not a country that could work in the long run” was one of the other arguments. Well, obviously not, because the EU is sending hundreds of police officers, judges and other officials to Kosovo. Well maybe they just need some time to educate all the officials. We will see about that.

The most interesting thing will be the precedence. Most of the countries, that are important in the international community say, that this can not be precedence, used by other countries. Iâ??m not really sure, how they will enforce that, but there are different regions, that have already said, that they will use Kosovo as precedence. We will see about that. Bosnia and Herzegovina will probably be a good test of the power of the international community, if they are really able to prevent that the Serbs in Bosnia connect to their â??brothersâ?? in Serbia.

Arguments for the independence are a bit more idealistic, so Iâ??m not sure if they can be tested in the reality. The right for independence is not really what we can check now in Kosovo.

What are the arguments that you use?