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"There is a desperate need for financial support for all eastern European countries, where, over the past decade, economies have collapsed and where no great improvements are expected in the foreseeable future. Bosnia-Herzegovina is a special case. Since 1992, when the separation of this former Turkish province from Yugoslavia gained international approval, attempts have been made continually from the outside to create one state and to gather support from that country’s inhabitants for this purpose. In actual fact, however, it is a state that does not belong to anyone. It is a country simply made up of ethnic minorities. Only the largest minority wanted this country and considers this as the country of the people who were Islamised under Turkish rule. The two other groups, who felt slighted in the Turkish era, now feel more in tune with the neighbouring states Serbia or Croatia. They experience the state borders that separate them from these countries these days as hindrances, and would like to see them removed as quickly as possible. The latest election result is still being counted, but it is expected that the electorate has once again voted for different, conflicting nationalist movements, and that, in other words, the three groups each want a separate future. How long do we intend to keep that country artificially alive with military power, leaders appointed from outside and external sources of funding? Our attempts will eventually result in failure once that country has survived the present difficult time."@en1
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