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". – I would like to go further than that, if I may.
First of all, it has to be the way forward for southeast Europe to turn its back once and for all on violence and the attempt to effect political change through bloodshed, mayhem, bombs and bullets. That is the path to Europe. That is what I will be discussing again tomorrow when I am in Croatia where they have, in my judgment, turned their faces to democracy and their backs to violence. It is the point I will be making in Albania on Thursday when we have the high level steering group which will be discussing the stabilisation and association process for Albania. I pay tribute now to the unequivocal statements made by the political leaders of the Albanian state in the last few days. But I want to go further.
Those who believe that we can secure peace and prosperity in southeast Europe by fiddling with borders here and there are deluding themselves, and deluding themselves seriously. There is not just one Presevo Valley in the southeast of Europe. There are, in political terms, figuratively several. So if you start fiddling with the borders here you end up fiddling with the borders everywhere. Every time you do that you encourage those who think they can get their own political way by blowing up houses, buses with innocent women and children in them, or shooting police officers going about their lawful duties.
I endorse what the honourable Member says, but I would go a stage further. There have been excellent signs in southeast Europe over the last 18 months of people coming back towards the democratic family. I took particular satisfaction myself in looking at the B92 radio station website at the weekend, which had the headline "Slobo in the slammer". I thought we had come a very long way in the last few years. I know that occasionally there are problems and not everything progresses smoothly, but I very much hope that we will not lose what has been achieved in the last 18 months."@en1
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