Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-16-Speech-4-026"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Reconstruction Agency – Situation in Kosovo2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990916.2.4-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-16-Speech-4-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Mihail Papayannakis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--1999-10-12)3 vice-chair; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is true that the main problem is really how the area should be reconstructed and with what intentions. Other speakers also stated the same. Mr President, today we have heard many minced words and unclear allusions. The Commissioner told us that they are witnessing problems in Kosovo of an ‘institutional and legal vacuum’, as he stated. How did that vacuum come about? What are the Union’s administration and the rest doing? What is this vacuum? And how do you intend to fill it? You told us that you will carry out an assessment of the damage. Just in Kosovo? Not in the surrounding areas? Just for the physical damage and not, for example, for the environmental damage? In other words, you are saying that you wish to reconstruct Kosovo in an institutional, legal, geographic, geo-political and political vacuum. I admire you! What is more, you and other speakers are saying all this, yet, at the same time, you are condemning the ethnic persecutions and trying to reconstruct democracy. You know very well that none of that is possible. The KLA will not prevent you from doing your work with their tanks but by their very presence and the tolerance that you are showing towards them, they will be an obstruction. What is more, the KLA is not the biggest danger. We have a great deal of past experience, Commissioner. I can, of course, recall Greece being in ruins in the wake of the Nazi occupation and the civil war, which was won with the aid of certain countries, and of course, more recently, Bosnia, Russia and Albania. Your greatest dangers are profiteering, land-grabbing, the secondary economy, the black market, and the mafia who are in practice trying to build a Kosovo with structures and interests as they themselves see fit. And yet, you have not batted an eyelid. I heard no mention of those issues throughout the whole debate. All this talk about Pristina and Thessaloniki is completely futile when we have this great problem facing us. Needless to say, it would be better for those who take the decisions and those who impose them to keep at arm’s length from each other. With this in mind, therefore, I must express my pessimism and I expect, of course, some more encouraging comments and answers."@en1

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