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<p>Quoting William Weber via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net">db-wg@ripe.net</a>>:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">It is not really as the Netherlands and the EU recognise Kosovo as independent country.
<div>By your logic Taiwan/TW should also be not selectable, it however is - and Taiwan is recognised by much less countries ("UN members") than Kosovo.<br>
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<p>Two letters country codes are ruled by ISO 3166-1 standard.<br>
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And, according to ISO 3166x, X* codes are NOT "country codes".<br>
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XK is just a so called "user assigned code", temporary used by just few organizations (European Commission and SWIFT), but it's NOT an official country code.<br>
Other examples of user assigned codes:<br>
XI, used by UK Government for Northern Ireland,<br>
XU, used by World Intellectual Property Organization for "International Union for the Protection of New Varietes of Plants"<br>
XZ, used for installations in international waters <br>
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Looking at EU, the XK code is "a designation without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence. (with asterisk and footnote in written documents, only the first time that Kosovo is mentioned)."</p>
<p>https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:Country_codes#cite_note-1<br>
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