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"The Representative of the Council is quite right to say that we may well face a civil war or perhaps a more widespread Balkan war unless developments are contained.
As regards the name and Greece's responsibility, which Mr Oostlander touched on, the only thing I have to say, yet again, is that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia only exists thanks to continuous material and moral support from Greece. Leaving aside the name, without this support, you can be sure that Milosevic's Yugoslavia would have broken it up long ago.
As far as the present situation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is concerned, we have a clash of two political philosophies: the political philosophy expounded by the Representative of the Council, whereby two different nations live within the same borders, cooperate and live in friendship, and the philosophy which says that the rights of the Albanian nation can only be secured by armed struggle and bloodshed.
May I say to the Council representative that this is a philosophy – and I know because I come from these parts and I have lived through a civil war – which is deep rooted in the psyche of a nation which still has various atavistic responses. If we want to avoid civil war, someone has to gainsay this philosophy of armed struggle, but not, of course, the government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, because if it undertakes to disarm the KLA, there will definitely be civil war. It is our duty to disarm the KLA, it is our duty to prohibit the KLA from using the security zone, it is our duty to tell the leadership in Kosovo not to incite the KLA to do these things, especially as we hold their purse strings – by the way, you could say the same to Turkey, that we shall stop all payments until they do something about the disgraceful state of their prisons – and, finally, we must use policing measures to prevent money from being collected in western Europe and sent to the KLA.
Unless we do these things, the whole civilised approach argued by the Council representative – which of course we want – will be a waste of time. It is not just the responsibility of the Macedonians. Unless we do these things, we too shall be responsible for what happens."@en1
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