I also said that we wanted to learn the lesson of the Balkans to win not the just the military campaign about Kosovo, but to win the peace as well.
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I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges.Lord Robertson
And I'm glad that Kosovo is well on the way now to being a functioning democracy where different ethnic groups can live in peace.
Lord Robertson
For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.
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And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
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But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.
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You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.
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