Who recognizes Kosovo? A bit over two years after its declaration of independence from Serbia, certainly not Serbia (whose cell towers inside Kosovo the Kosovar authorities summarily dismantled the other day). But Montenegro, the entity most recently departed from Serbia, does. So do fellow former parts of Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia.
According to the Kosovo Thanks You web site, fellow-Muslim-former-part-of-Yugoslavia Bosnia & Herzegovina doesn't recognise Kosovo, though fellow Muslims in the neighborhood, Albania and Turkey, do.
The U.S. and Canada and all the politically correct Western European states are also in, and much of the Middle East and farther flung Islamic lands: The U.A.E., Saudia Arabia, Comoros Islands, Mauritania, Bahrain, Jordan. Just two countries in South America: Colombia & Peru.
First in: Costa Rica. Most recent: Swaziland. In between, an exotic mix of tiny, tiny island nations, including the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Maldives and Palau.
The map is here.
(See photos from several states in the former Yugoslavia - though not yet from Kosovo - in the Former Yugoslavia Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.)
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