Robin Cook Eu Quotations

Belgrade had better take note -- the outside world is not going to let this one go, ... The EU is going to make sure ethnic confrontation is not going to be allowed to continue in any part of Europe.

What we are witnessing is not an end, but a new beginning, ... Today at this meeting we are discussing ... how the European Union can fulfill its lead role for the reconstruction of Kosovo.

It will also enable the EU to make clear to the Algerian government the concern felt in Europe about the security situation... and our desire to offer humanitarian assistance,

It's been imposed upon them by Milosevic who told them they would be guilty of treason to come here, ... (For) Milosevic to argue that it is treason to talk to the rest of Europe ... demonstrates how desperately isolationist he is and what a menace he is to the people of Serbia.

In Kosovo Europe witnessed the greatest persecution of a whole people since the days of Hitler or Stalin. We acted because the age of mass deportation and ethnic cleansing belongs to Europe's past.

He put to bed any idea that there are going to be divisions between Europe and the United States over security,

We should do nothing that would weaken NATO. We firmly believe that a stronger European contribution to crisis management can actually strengthen NATO. There is no difference between us on that,

an important initial step which will help the EU get a clearer picture of the situation on the ground.

A European operation will only occur where NATO, as a whole, has decided not to act,