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"Serbia and Montenegro is today one of the European countries where more than 20 nationalities live side by side. It is a fact that the cowardly bombardments by NATO forces have resulted in unemployment levels of over 40%, and that ethnic cleansing in the neighbouring countries has driven out 700 000 refugees. It is to be welcomed that our resolution states our interest in preserving peaceful coexistence among nationalities. A positive contribution to this is the economic aid with which the EU intends to support the economic development of this severely tested country. Otherwise this resolution too would simply be further evidence of our hypocrisy and the mockery we are making of the people of Serbia and Montenegro.
I believe that the main investments being prepared are earmarked for the motorway across Vojvodina, for the rebuilding of the bridges over the rivers Sava and Danube, and for improvements to the main railways in the country. Please do not tell me, however, that after the cowardly support for the bombing of the country, you are not trying to tell the Serbs and the other nations; ‘we’re sorry, come and start accession negotiations. We know that you are a key country in the Balkans and we would like, while we still can, to right the mistakes of the past.’ Do not try to tell me that this resolution is about anything else. Otherwise no one present here would be able to support it. That is, of course, if you have the slightest shred of honour and know that our voters take a negative view of the NATO operation. Or could we be deceiving ourselves?"@en1
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