Skoro osam mjeseci nakon jednostranog proglašenja nezavisnosti Kosova 17. februara 2008, Srbija je podnijela rezoluciju UN-u, zahtijevajući savjetodavno mišljenje ICJ-a o legalnosti tog poteza.
Nearly eight months after Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence of February 17th 2008, Serbia submitted a resolution to the UN, requesting the ICJ's advisory opinion on the legality of that move.