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"I would like to say, Mr Marset Campos, that I find it very difficult to make judgments based on suppositions about what might have happened if something else had not happened! Neither you nor I will ever know what might be happening now in Kosovo or what might have happened in Kosovo if NATO had not dropped its bombs. We will never know if the aggressive and ever worsening actions Mr Milosevic and his government were perpetrating more and more frequently would in fact have had far more dire consequences than those that we are witnessing in Kosovo today.
With regard to lifting sanctions, we think that the European Union’s attitude towards Yugoslavia has amounted to a careful assessment of the various situations. We have implemented an Energy for Democracy programme to support democratically governed municipalities in Yugoslavia. We reacted positively, at last Monday’s General Affairs Council, to the request made to us by democratic forces in Serbia that we should lift the air embargo, both for international aircraft and for aircraft belonging to Yugoslavia’s national airline. These are signs of the European Union’s goodwill towards the situation in Serbia.
We must realise that we will not achieve results by making gestures that are not reciprocated. Nor will we achieve results by providing certain kinds of facilities for the Serbian authorities, whose actions, particularly in the sphere of human rights within Serbia, and particularly as regards Serbia’s internal political system, are still deeply regrettable. I hope that you will agree with me, Mr Marset Campos, about the current state of democracy in that country. We shall make appropriate gestures towards Serbia, in terms of providing services, of lifting sanctions, when Serbia’s behaviour, both on the international stage and in its relations with its neighbouring countries, and its behaviour within its own borders, is in tune with what we consider to be the fundamental principles governing the international community and the behaviour of “decent” countries on the world stage."@en1
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