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"Mr President, the report on the stabilisation and association process for the countries in eastern Europe we are debating today attempts, and I believe successfully so, to formulate a stable political framework with which to address the Balkan tragedy. Now is not the time to pass judgement past events and situations. Today, let us take it that with this report we are taking a step towards the future and creating the platform for a first successful substantive European Union policy, in a way the first successful action of the CFSP.
Here, however, we must pay attention to certain issues. So what are these issues? It is an open secret that interests are being expressed in the Balkans by many sides and many people, who often do not have common strategic aims. In all circumstances this must be stopped by non-negotiable political answers given in every direction. So what are they?
Firstly: absolute compliance with the UN’s decisions on the area.
Secondly: the boundaries of the states in the area are non-negotiable, even if it proves necessary in critical cases to adopt flexible forms of administrative autonomy and greater decentralisation. I note that if there are some who think solutions will emerge either by creating new states or by redistribution between states, they are making a tragic mistake. That would lead to continued and lasting tension with no foreseeable end. A domino effect. Without exaggeration, at the beginning of the 21st century we would have a new thirty-year war, 10 years of which, in any case, we have unfortunately lived through.
Thirdly: our policy must concern the peoples, and only them. That is what is also in Europe’s interests.
Fourthly: the issue of economic and institutional reconstruction is an urgent priority. Positive results will emerge through development, democracy and prosperity. For the first time you are passing judgement on a complex problem at the very periphery of the European Union. The EU’s political credibility and competence must prove successful. It is a bet which must be won. I hope that the strong convergence of support for the Lagendijk report achieved in the Committee on Foreign Affairs will find the same response in Parliament, and thereby express the desire of us all for a positive and stable outcome."@en1
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