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"Mr President, Mr Βrok is right to say that we are that much wiser now as regards the docking of pigs' tails. But we still have not worked out how to cut the Gordian knot around Kosovo, despite numerous attempts. Ladies and gentlemen, if a neutral observer were to come to every sitting of the European Parliament, he would conclude that we are a monotonous lot. FYROM, Kosovo, former Yugoslavia. Our obsession with this subject basically illustrates that we are at an impasse. We must find a way out of this impasse. Meeting after meeting, prime ministers, ministers, representatives, visits, but still no results.
Today we are being asked to approve more financial assistance for Kosovo and we must approve it so that we can help the people working there to resolve the problems. But, you see, every irregularity in the area as a whole emanates from Kosovo. In other words, maybe we are providing a safe haven there, from which various terrorist groups are able to organise terrorist attacks on the area with impunity?
We have witnessed the end of the Milosevic era and that is a good thing. But immediately afterwards we witnessed a development in southern Serbia, a half-hearted attempt at destabilisation in Montenegro, which proper intervention halted. And then, you see, there was the threat in southern Serbia that the Yugoslav army would return to the border. Perhaps we should now allow the Yugoslav army to proceed to the border with Kosovo, as provided for by the UN, perhaps this threat can be partly defused? I find it really strange that, with thousands of soldiers in Kosovo, it is not possible to close the border, it is not possible to seal the border and prevent FYROM and the area as a whole from being destabilised. It is most strange. If one soldier were to sit next to another at five-metre intervals, they would form an unbroken barrier at the border.
So in this sense, it is good that the political efforts being made on all sides are accompanied by grim determination. Because, you see, any continuation of this instability in the area will lead nowhere. If some people think that new nation states are going to emerge from this tragedy, they are wrong. The area is so badly fragmented by minorities, which in some places have the majority vote and in some places have the minority vote, that we shall end up with federations of villages, with federations of towns if we are to be able to say that there is some sort of cohesion. In other words, if anyone ever dreams about ethnically clean areas, they will look like DNA diagrams.
In this sense, I believe that, apart from financial assistance, we need pressure, pressure and political unity to stabilise and develop the area, and we need political solutions within existing borders. And that is what we must secure."@en1
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