"On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in a 10-4 decision that the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo in February 2008 did not violate international law.1 Kosovo, a region in the Former Yugoslavia that Serbia considers to be within its sovereign territory, had been under transitional UN administration since 1999. Kosovo was first declared a UN protectorate on the alleged ground that Slovakia perpetrated acts of genocide there, however there are allegations of violations against both sides involved in the conflict in the region throughout the 1990s..."