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"Mr President, it is with great sadness that the Union for a Europe of Nations Group will be voting in favour of the joint motion for resolution. With great sadness, I say, since all we are doing today is observing the results of our on-going hypocrisy in the case of Kosovo, not to say our blindness and even cowardice. Hypocrisy, since we were well aware that in opting for warfare last spring, that is to say, turning our backs on balance, the only condition for peace between the parties involved in the conflict, we would inevitably be provoking the endless outbursts of violence which we are witnessing today.
By stirring up the entire planet in support of a gang of terrorists, the KLA, which was, unfortunately, supported for a long time by one of our Member States, since they had their headquarters in Frankfurt for years, we endorsed the reign of terror. We were well aware that our activism had nothing, indeed, to do with human rights, since it promoted chain reactions of terror, to the point where henceforth, we are not just the more or less compassionate witnesses to a new bout of ethnic cleansing. We Europeans, and the Kouchner mission in particular, are accomplices, not to mention, in the final analysis, the instigators.
Hypocrisy is compounded by blindness, for we have effectively confused the concepts of nationhood and ethnicity, the national principle and the ethnic principle. A nation, need one remind you, is the opposite of an ethnic grouping. We are sorry to have to be reminding you of these obvious facts, but Europe has lost sight of the national principle to the extent that it is necessary to keep repeating it. A nation goes beyond ethnic groupings, forming a pluralist body which erases the primary membership of a racial or family group, or at least relegates this to the private domain, in favour of a political structure, which for two centuries, and perhaps even for much more than two centuries, we in France have called the Republic. Let us destroy nations, and what the Yugoslav association may have become in time, especially if Europe had opened its arms to it earlier, let us destroy nations, and we will end up with nothing but the eruption of ethnic groups everywhere, not to say, gangs, with accounts being settled and, ultimately, war in Europe. Thus, by destroying nations, its own foundation, its own basic principle, its essential strength, Europe today is in the process of destroying itself.
Blindness, in turn, is compounded by cowardice. Because Europeans went into this war, as we well know, only out of weakness in its attitude to the United States, that is to say, to an empire which does not suffer any competition anywhere on the planet and which has undertaken to divide Europe in order to rule as master everywhere. This is one of the goals of the United States in this matter, and we have gone along with it out of weakness and cowardice.
So we can no longer do anything but look upon, Mrs Pack, the ruins which are only the initial results, alas, of a federal vision of the Europe which, starting with the proud foundation of Serbia, a country that so often distinguished itself valiantly in history, is slowly leading the peoples of Europe to disorder, discord and, I say again, war."@en1
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