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"Mr President, Milosevic has long been poisoning the entire region with his racist ideas as regards ethnic minorities. He has certainly been successful in certain parts of former Yugoslavia. Radicalisation is underway in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, everywhere, in reaction to his ethno-racist policy. The Albanians in Kosovo have already been subject to this pressure for a very long time but they have continued to resist it. They have succeeded in this for some time now due in particular to Mr Rugova’s leadership. But if the oppression continues to increase in its severity and shows no signs of abating and ethnic cleansing takes place, then it is to be expected that radicalisation will be the response met with there too. In reality this would mean success for Milosevic in terms of his policy, for he would actually like to spread this ethno-racist ideology throughout the region. We must bring pressure to bear on the Albanians as a matter of urgency and appeal to them not to grant him this success.
This Parliament has always rejected ethnically-based lines of reasoning. We are on the side of the oppressed in principle and even if the victims of yesterday are the ones holding power today, we will still be on the side of the victims of today. Everyone knows that this tends to be the Serbs. Indeed, there are many instances of the Serbs being violently oppressed at the present time, but there is very little attention being given to the Roma. They easily fall prey to ethnic hatred for no one likes them anywhere. That is all the more reason to keep this very vulnerable population group within our sights, specifically with the use of this resolution. KFOR must be afforded the scope and resources it needs to protect the Roma.
There is an urgent need for a fully fledged Kosovan political power that will truly be in a position to guarantee public order, and not by choosing the easy route, that is to say, the division or cantonisation of Kosovo, but by choosing a route that leads to reconciliation. Kosovo must take the route leading to a constitutional state if it is to achieve this. Effective public administration must be established. I know that in that respect Western Europe is doing everything that can be done and this deserves our full support. This will have to include support and a role for the Yugoslav Tribunal, since justice for all concerned is an essential prerequisite to reconciliation between the various population groups."@en1
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