Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-16-Speech-4-148"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina is the country which experienced the most sustained effort from those who wished to destroy multi-ethnic coexistence in the Balkans, and to provoke conflict between people along religious lines. I wish to stress that this does not, in any way, involve relations between countries but, rather, relations between people belonging to the Muslim or Catholic faiths. The Jewish community was forced to flee the country at the start of the conflict and never became involved in it. A further peculiarity is that when the country came into being, most of the orthodox community lived in rural areas, whereas most Muslims lived in the cities. We ought to bear this in mind when we draw up EU aid programmes.
I therefore welcome Article 16 of the Resolution, calling for more attention to be paid to the special needs of rural areas. It is also high time to call on the Hague Tribunal to start pursuing those war criminals that were motivated by reasons other than religious belief. In the terminology used here, we are talking about the Serbs. We must admit that even this Parliament has sometimes failed to reach a just conclusion. For example, some passages of the Resolution before us, regarding the tenth anniversary of the events in Srebrenice hold only one side culpable of mass murder, in contrast with the established facts.
I am pleased that dictatorial methods that have been used by the current administrators in the country are now consigned to the past. This is another positive report attempting to support economic development, not least through the agreement of the Western Balkan states on the return of refugees and on compensation for damage to property. We accordingly supported it in the vote, with the proviso that the Resolution should be partly reworked."@en1
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