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"I respect your understanding and knowledge of the Balkan region, Mr Alyssandrakis, but I find it difficult, quite frankly, to understand how respecting the characteristics of the region can, in terms of political stability, be a solution to the problem. If we look at the democratic stability of the region, it could perhaps be said that it was the break-up of Yugoslavia that caused the current situation, but let us not get involved in interpreting an international development. Nevertheless, I would like to say that Yugoslavia was what it was, in the sense that the state managed to harmonise some of its people’s ethnic differences to a degree. It must be pointed out that it did this at a time when its political framework was far from ideal in terms of being democratically representative. The division of Yugoslavia is probably a historical fact that we shall have to accept, regardless of the mistakes that may have been made along the way. We do not feel that withdrawing international forces now would be any kind of solution. Quite the contrary, it would be a solution leading to calamity."@en1
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