Chamber recognises Kosovo, Taiwan and Somaliland but rejects Palestine

Lazia, 16 October 2016 — The Lazian Chamber has settled a series of recognition questions at its first full session, extending Mahusetan acknowledgement to Kosovo, Taiwan and Somaliland while declining to recognise the State of Palestine.

The vote on Kosovo reversed the chamber’s decision of January. At its very first sitting it had voted against recognition, after Van der Huijsen and Nuri van Dijk argued that the step might complicate possible future relations within the Russophone Community. The reversal, some nine months later, brought Mahuset into line with the majority of Western states.

Recognition of Taiwan extended Mahusetan acknowledgement to the Republic of China’s sovereignty over the island of Taiwan. Somaliland, the self-declared republic in the northern Horn of Africa, was likewise recognised as sovereign over the northern half of the Horn of Africa, and was among several partially recognised or unrecognised states to which the Confederation extended acknowledgement that day.

Palestine alone was refused. Two members voted in favour, two abstained and one was opposed, leaving the motion to acknowledge the State of Palestine among the few of the session’s recognition questions to be rejected. The Confederation would go on to recognise a range of contested territories, from post-Soviet breakaway states to Catalonia.