Follow a policy of respect of national borders and control of immigration.

"That is the condition we need for full development of the region, respect of borders and democracy."

This principle of "respect of borders existing on achievement of independence" is again enshrined in Article 4(b) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union.

Parliament did not consider it appropriate to take a similar resolution on Kosovo in the name of the same principles of respect for international law and integrity of national borders that it is invoking today to denounce recognition of the independence of Ossetia and Abkhazia by Moscow.