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"Mr President, we intervened in Kosovo in order to protect the Albanians, who were a minority in Serbia. We must now protect the Serbs, who are minority in Kosovo. Moreover, we must say to the extremist Albanian insurgents that we are not, therefore, there to support the ideas of Albanian extremism. We are there to support peace and human rights, and we shall do what we can to prevent Albanian extremists from creating unrest in the new democratic Serbia. I should like to assure Mr Dupuis that there were six of us from Parliament who spent the weekend visiting the new leaders in Belgrade. We received assurances that that they would cooperate with the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, set up a truth commission and grant amnesty to conscientious objectors etc. What we can do here in Parliament is to hold the new leaders to these promises and, if they do not live up to them, then there are things we can do, for we are, of course, the great aid provider, granting large amounts of money, now and in the years to come, to the new Serbia.
I want, finally, to say something which is almost a remark on the rules of procedure. The purpose of these urgent topics we are now debating is, of course, to draw the public’s attention to serious problems in world politics and to serious violations of human rights and democracy. It is therefore a paradox that we are holding the debate at a time when there are fewest people here. There is no-one from the press. It is, in fact, almost like performing a striptease in the dark, if you will pardon the expression. I also think it is a paradox that we are insisting on the Commission’s being present – and the Council too ought, of course, to be here – but we have written our motions for resolution before we have heard what they have to say. It is both paradoxical and frivolous. I would therefore conclude my speech with the request that urgent topics of this kind be put on the agenda on Wednesdays when the Council and the Commission are here and that we only vote on the motions for resolution once we have heard the remarks on our proposals."@en1
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