US President [[George W Bush]] announced that he would disregard the 1999 peace agreement and support an independent Kosovo protected
US President [[George W Bush]] announced that he would disregard the 1999 peace agreement and support an independent Kosovo protected
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by NATO. Russia and Serbia condemned this unilateral action. Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] described the recognition of Kosovo independence by the United States as "a terrible precedent which will de facto blow apart the whole system of [[international relations]] developed not over decades but over centuries."
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by NATO. Russia and Serbia condemned this [[unilateral]] action. Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] described the recognition of Kosovo independence by the United States as "a terrible precedent which will de facto blow apart the whole system of [[international relations]] developed not over decades but over centuries."