Romania's agent and co-agent in the process from Hague last year, namely Bogdan Aurescu and Cosmin Dinescu, pleaded in the International Court of Justice on Thursday, supporting Romania's position regarding Kosovo's independence.

Aurescu argued the necessity for the Court in Hague to not limit itself strictly to the question raised by the General Assembly - whether or not the declaration of independence of the autonomous administration temporary institutions from Kosovo complies with the international law - and stressed that the real judicial problem the Court needs to solve was, in Romania's vision, to evaluate if the international law forbids or not the creation of a new state through unilateral secession, in the circumstances of the examined case.

Plus, Bogdan Aurescu showed that in order to accept that the idea of a unilateral secession would be allowed by the international law, that the territorial integrity would only apply to several states and that the non-state actors would not be obliged to respect it would entail the fact that any territory part of any state could claim independence:"(...) This would lead to extremely severe consequences for the international judicial law. This would mean that any province, district, county or even the smallest settlement from any border of any state would have the international law's permission to declare its independence and to obtain secession. (...) This conclusion cannot be accepted. The interdiction of the unilateral secession is one of the (...) territorial integrity elements". The Romanian delegation argued that the territorial and sovereignty principles represent the fundamental pillars of the international law and offer no derogation.

The Romanian state secretary also said that that declaring Kosovo independent breeches UN Security Council relevant resolutions, which rule that t