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"en.20120328.17.3-091-000"2
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"Mr President, the 1990s resounded with the demands for autonomy voiced by Kosovo’s Albanians and now, Kosovo has become an independent country recognised by the majority of EU Member States. The road between these two stages, however, was a difficult one lined with bloody conflict and a vast number of victims, and also cost two decades wasted in terms of economic development. When the Serbian leadership rejected Kosovo’s autonomy it perhaps did not even suspect that this meant the first step towards secession. So, too, did the international community perhaps not suspect that in not taking the peaceful protests led by Ibrahim Rugova seriously, it was contributing to the eruption of violence and armed conflict. In regions with populations of mixed ethnicities, including the Western Balkans, enabling the self-governance of the various indigenous national minority communities is the principal requisite of social peace. This is the lesson we were taught by the not-too-distant history of Kosovo. The EU must pay attention to the voices of minorities, even more than it has done in the past."@en1
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