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"(FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the disastrous war in the Balkans unleashed against a sovereign State without the approval of the United Nations Security Council and with no prior declaration of war only appears to have ended.
Of course, the Atlantic coalition, on the orders of American politicians, appears to have come out on top. But at what price? We are now faced with the enormous destruction which we have caused, mostly with no serious military objective. Having paid for this destruction, the European tax-payer will now be asked to pay for reconstruction. Bitter derision and, material waste have added to the human and political damage, and we are now in the front line of Community confrontations, in a psychological situation which is aggravated by the destruction which we have brought about.
We are at risk of being ensnared in these conflicts, unless the European countries do not stand by powerless in the face of the final phase of ethnic cleansing which has not touched the universal sense of conscience to any great extent: we risk the elimination of the remaining Serb inhabitants, in that region, who have become a minority in their own country.
Respect for international law, for the sovereignty of States, for their territorial integrity, is not always without its problems, but the violation of that respect causes infinitely more problems. This is what the authorities of the Union and the governments of the Member States should understand. In that way we will perhaps be spared the still unforeseen dramas which may await us."@en1
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