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"(DA) Madam President, it is an extremely difficult task to rebuild Kosovo without disempowering the population and undermining the self-supporting powers of that country. It is even harder to rebuild relations between the Serbs and the Albanians which make it possible for the Serbian minority to remain in Kosovo. This can only be achieved if legal proceedings are initiated against murderers, rapists and war criminals. This is one of the genuinely difficult tasks. The most difficult of all will be to secure long-term peace. We must learn to combine the military iron gloves of NATO with the economic velvet gloves of the EU and provide co-operation and aid for economic and democratic development. We in the EU must establish an anteroom to those Balkan states which intend to develop along the lines of democracy and the market economy. If they hope to perhaps one day become members of the European Union, we can strengthen the democratic forces in the same way as was successful for other previous dictatorships in Southern Europe. We must also provide humanitarian aid to Serbia, insofar as this can be achieved without supporting the Milosevic regime, and we must urge municipal leaders, private associations and others to work with the democratic forces in both Kosovo and Serbia.
With regard to the reconstruction agency, I would like to thank Mr Fischler for his frankness. I have seldom heard a Commissioner distance himself so clearly, and in such a well-reasoned manner, from a Council Resolution. The Council has entered into a shameful, face-saving compromise for those who promised to locate the centre in Thessaloniki. Now, the Headquarters will be in Thessaloniki, whilst those carrying out the work will be in Pristina. What on earth is that all about? I ask all the Union"s citizens to note that it is therefore not the Commission and the Parliament but their own governments which cannot grasp something as simple as the fact that the reconstruction work in Kosovo must be carried out in Kosovo and from Kosovo. We in the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party will vigorously contest the Resolution. It simply won"t do. It must be amended.
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