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"Firstly, to comment on what the President said, I must say that I am very happy to be grilled by the Greek Members. I have some great friends in Greece where I have spent several holidays. As for the situation you describe, Mr Purvis, I do not believe that the policy is disastrous. This is the only possible policy, as you know, and it is a result of everything that has happened in the region in the last few years and even in the last few decades. We must realise that the international community’s position, which is not brilliant in terms of the practical application of these measures, is the only one which can resolve a conflict on which the international community was only called to act due to the total inability to find a solution within the Former Yugoslavia.
It was precisely the situation created in the Former Yugoslavia which caused this reaction. You refer to the KLA. Remember that the KLA only exists because the Albanian community in Kosovo was systematically persecuted and totally besieged. Clearly the need to organise themselves militarily to respond to this threat led to the KLA’s action. The problem now facing us is to try and ensure that the structures created outside the democratic process, simply because this did not exist in the Former Yugoslavia, allow an approach of solely political action to be adopted in a democratic Kosovo. We are still a long way off from finding such an approach, but I believe that the international community’s action is very positive in this respect."@en1
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