Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-06-Speech-3-283"
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"One of the major reasons and perhaps the key reason for the tragic war in the former Yugoslavia was the fact that the international community was neither consistent nor even-handed in its approach to solving the key question, that is, the right of people to self-determination.
At the moment there is peace in the region, but we are still some distance from the kind of progress that would bring about long-term prosperity. It is right and proper that with this report and the action of the Commissioner we are sending a message to the region that it is welcome in the European Union, and it is also right that we are placing emphasis on economic progress, although it is as yet insufficient.
The European Union faces a task that in a certain way it faced before the tragic war took place, namely to have a consistent and even-handed view of the basic questions of status relating to the peoples and states in the region. The Dayton Agreement cannot secure progress in Bosnia and Hercegovina because what that country needs is a modern constitution. We must find a solution to the question of the independence of Kosovo and the rights of Serbs and Montenegrins to self-determination. We cannot accept that the Macedonians do not merit the name they have given themselves. These are all fundamental questions of status.
I would like to support the Commissioner in that the European Commission should be more active in this policy than it has been hitherto."@en1
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