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"Mr President, in 1999, Serbia, crushed by NATO bombing, had to give up exercising sovereignty over part of its territory, Kosovo. At the time, our governments justified this violation of international law by invoking the need to avoid ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population and the plan to turn Kosovo into a peaceful, multicultural society. This was, in particular, Dr Kouchner's ambition.
Five years later, reality has brutally shattered this Utopian dream. The billions spent by our countries, as Mr Patten mentioned just now, and the thousands of soldiers we are deploying there are not preventing the Muslims from ethnically cleansing the 200 000 Serbs still living in Kosovo. Rather than issuing soothing statements dismissing both the victims and the culprits without pronouncing in favour of either, our leaders should think about their responsibility. Above all, they should put an end to this violation of international law, which Serbia has a right to see respected, as do the other states in the region. This is all the more true because our people are not safe from the tragedy now afflicting the Kosovar Serbs.
Sixty years ago, Albanian Muslims were still in the minority in this province, which is the historic heart of Serbia. A few decades of socialism, Albanian immigration and a falling birth rate among the Serbs reversed the proportions: the Serbs became a minority in their own land and are finally being driven out of their homes, their fields and their churches.
Many regions in our countries are undergoing the start of this process. Some districts, like here in Strasbourg, or even whole towns now have a Muslim majority and are gradually escaping from our laws and being taken over by gangs that will be succeeded by Sharia law. The tragedy in Kosovo is sounding a warning. We must change policy. European comrades, do not ask for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee."@en1
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