Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-30-Speech-2-216"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Kosovo2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040330.6.2-216"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-30-Speech-2-2172
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Groen! (2004-01-06--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, may I first state clearly that I condemn all forms of violence. May I also state clearly that I am absolutely in favour of a multiethnic Kosovo. I would prefer to call it Kosova, which is the Albanian term for Kosovo. I agree with Mr Joost Lagendijk when he said that it was inevitable that violence would break out sooner or later in Kosova. Anyone who has ever visited the divided city of Mitrovica knew that it would take little to trigger an uprising. The riots and lynch mobs were easy to anticipate. It is therefore necessary to take the wind out of the sails of the hard-liners among the Kosovar Albanians. To do this, we must eliminate the traumas. Traumas from the past, traumas from the exodus of 1999, the traumas that still haunt the Albanian Kosovars concerning their almost 4 000 missing friends, acquaintances, brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers. Four thousand people are still missing. They have either disappeared or they are still locked up in Serbian prisons on very vague charges. Traumas from the present as well. Is it not true that in the north the international community is in fact applying the secret pact between Milosevic and the Russian generals in which the north of Kosova actually becomes Serbian territory? Whichever way you look at it, the Albanian Kosovars in Mitrovica, 85% of the population, are still being held hostage by the Serbs. Unemployment in the Albanian part is two-and-a-half times higher than in the Serbian part. The Albanian Kosovars in Mitrovica in the southern part earn two-and-a-half times less than the Serbs in the northern part. The international community’s official standpoint is still before status. I would therefore like to call for a ‘both-and’ approach. We must aim for both and status. Only an independent Kosova will bring true peace to the region. At least, as long as multi-ethnicity is also respected by the Albanian Kosovars."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"standards"1

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