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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the debate on conflict prevention and crisis management policy and on the problems in the area of southern Yugoslavia in general is like testing theory and practice all at once. Of course, when nations are turned into guinea pigs on the basis of the “stick and carrot rather than policy” approach, something is seriously wrong. Let us at least try out a new starting point, the sole aim of which is conflict prevention.
It will be a long time before those guilty of tragic mistakes in south-eastern Europe in the past are able to unravel, decode and understand the political and social DNA of the Balkans. Now that the European Union has taken substantial initiatives and general conditions in the area may be said to have improved, no new aggravation and no more armed reckonings should be allowed. Peace, cooperation, the rule of law and inviolable borders must form the backbone to our policy, along with constant efforts to improve the democratic institutions and standard of living in all these hard-hit regions.
The European Union must assist and strengthen the healthy forces in the area and must keep its distance from those trying to turn the underworld and organised crime into political agencies. We still have not calculated the huge cost – either to the region or to Europe as a whole – of the mistaken action which at last appears to have come to an end.
Peace and stability in the region would appear to be the primary
for a political resolution to the extended crisis and it will take a great deal of time and effort before stable, viable, constitutional institutions result. For the European Union, what a splendid victory. At last it can emerge wearing a olive wreath, Athena’s olive wreath of wisdom and peace, rather than the spear and shield of Mars, the ancient god of war.
I should just like to say to Mr Dupuis that, before saying what he did in the House about relations between the FYROM and Greece, he would have done well to talk to the FYROM government. Then he would have discovered that the European country with which it maintains the best relations is Greece. This is a fact of life and it makes an excellent contribution to stability in the region."@en1
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