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"Mr President, it is mandatory for all countries wishing to join the European Union to comply with the Copenhagen criteria, which includes guaranteeing minority rights. Special attention needs to be paid to this when assessing the integration efforts of the Western Balkan countries, since we are all familiar with the ethnic relations in the region and events of the none too distant past. The European integration of the region should only occur follow reassuring resolution of inter-ethnic relations in a lasting way to the satisfaction of all the national communities. I say this with regret since, for the people of the region, it would be welcome for accession to occur at the earliest possible juncture, and it is true that the means to resolve the matters at issue would also be available after accession. However, practical experience shows that the common institutions of the EU do not deal with the problem of the national minorities living in the Member States and the Copenhagen criteria are, unfortunately, only mandatory before accession."@en1
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