This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown
It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament,
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