Thank you.
Ambassadors, I was just going through this publication. It's very interesting.
If we go back and refresh our memories, and I believe you will agree with me, we'll see the whole reform started in Gdansk or Danzig in Poland with Solidarnosc. Later on there was perestroika; perestroika spilled out over the former Warsaw Pact countries, and then it came to the former Yugoslavia.
You probably know that James Baker went to Milosevic and asked him to use whatever force was needed to hold Yugoslavia together, and he gave him 30 days. Milosevic said no thank you, I won't need 30 days; 15 days is enough; I'll use the armed forces.
The percentage of GDP allocated to the army in Yugoslavia was among the highest at that time, right? Fortunately, the army wasn't united. The army was controlled by we-know-who, right?
Now, after the whole destruction happened, I believe western forces were aware that even al-Qaeda was training in camps in Bosnia and sending their trained soldiers to Chechnya. Would you agree with that?
You mentioned there should be political will. Do you think that is enough, just political will, or are there different interests, like putting in barbed...and then selling arms underground for high prices and so on? How do you prevent situations like that?