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"en.20010614.3.4-082"2
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"On the pretext of helping Kosovo, this report proposes helping to privatise that country’s economy, which means, according to the examples given in the text itself, putting it into the hands of Western banks.
Our vote against the report expresses our indignation at the entire policy maintained by the Western powers, particularly those from the European Union. This policy consists, having littered Kosovo with bombs as it did with Serbia, of making the very ruins of those countries into an additional outlet for Western capital.
The Western powers must realise that repairing what they destroyed is the least of the matter. Only a fraction of the money spent during the war, only a part of the resources and equipment that were used, would be enough to repair infrastructures, to rebuild roads, railway and telephone lines and to rebuild the buildings and business that were destroyed. This should be paid for by the Western powers, or more precisely, out of their military budgets, without generating private profit in the West. For the moment, despite all the self-congratulating that is taking place, the economic balance sheet of the European Union’s action is reduced to carving up what remains of Kosovo’s economy and to putting it into the hands of Western banks and the grip of the mafias."@en1
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