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We voted against these reports, which are nothing more than a financial statement of the policy of the major Imperialist powers in this area of the world. The so-called ‘aid’ to the Balkans is, in fact, intended to ‘support the balance of payments and help ease … the external financial constraints’ of these countries, as stated in one of the Färm reports (Macedonia).
The major powers bear a huge part of the responsibility for the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. They are guilty of bombings which affected not only the targeted regions but neighbouring regions as well, if only because they forced a part of the population of Kosovo into exile. Their variable geometric diplomacy, which involves them supporting one side and then another, playing on ethnic differences and thus reviving them, is not bringing peace to the region, but encouraging war.
In voting against these reports, we are expressing our opposition to the Imperialist powers’ overall policy on the Balkans and to their interventions."@en1
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