My previous piece on the ECFR Report about the EU’s growing ineffectuality at the UN quoted this:

… The assembly kicked off this week in New York with the west bracing itself for another debacle. Serbia is to use the session to demand a vote on the "illegality" of the secession last February of Kosovo, whose breakaway was strongly backed by the US and most of the EU, and to refer the dispute to the UN’s international court of justice.

Despite strenuous lobbying by the Europeans to prevent the vote, they have conceded defeat. Only 46 of the 192 UN states have recognised Kosovo’s independence. And western attempts to rally support for Georgia in the Caucasus crisis will be rebuffed by the Russians.

Here is HM Ambassador in Belgrade Stephen Wordsworth attempting to persuade Serbia not to press on with that Kosovo vote at the UN:

… we made clear our concerns over Serbia’s intention to seek an Advisory Opinion on Kosovo’s declaration of independence from the International Court of Justice, which we believed to be a mistake, which would only force us to continue to focus on what divides us, rather than on what we can do together.

Unfortunately, Serbia has not yet responded positively to these approaches …  it is not always easy to think of a country as a partner when its representatives, almost daily, publicly accuse us and most of the rest of the EU of violating international law.

True.

But maybe so many EU member states – and their esteemed diplomats – should have been more prescient in anticipating such a messy and embarrassing outcome for their policy of imposing a partition of a European country in the face of so much international unease?

Thus Serbia sails blithely on.

Although as and when the ICJ pronounces in the case, I wonder what Serbia will do if the ICJ’s advisory opinion favours Kosovo independence?