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"According to some people, the crisis in the Caucasus started with President Bush’s speech in Riga in 2005, when he announced that a new Yalta Agreement was needed. He could just as well have said a new Treaty of Trianon, since the misery of many small peoples and countries did not start with the Second World War but with the Trianon Peace Treaty that ended the First World War. The recommendation of the then American President, Wilson, concerning the self-determination of peoples has only remained a dream.
Today, in connection with the crisis in the Caucasus, people are talking about the interests of great powers, about oil and about war, but they are saying very little about the right of self-determination of the peoples living there. The most important task for the EU in such conflict situations could be to set an example. Of the Member States of the EU, 11 ensure autonomy for minorities in some form or other. This is 41% of the Member States of the EU.
The objective is an exemplary policy on national minorities for every Member State of the EU: not in 41%, but in 100%! A European Union with an exemplary policy on national minorities could even take more effective action in the Caucasus too."@en1
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