White House Report, Thursday, October 5, 2000
CLINTON HOPES HOUR NEAR WHEN SERBIA CAN BE WELCOMED TO DEMOCRACY
President Clinton told students at Princeton University the afternoon
of October 5 that "the people of Serbia have spoken with their ballot,
they have spoken on the streets. I hope the hour is near when their
voices will be heard and we can welcome them to democracy, to Europe,
to the world's community.
"And when they do," said Clinton, "we will move as quickly as possible
to lift the sanctions and build the kind of responsible partnership
that the people there deserve.
"Freedom has made steady advances in Bosnia, in Croatia, in Romania
and Bulgaria. And today, in Serbia where a decade ago the forces of
destruction began their march across the Balkans, now the march of
freedom is gaining new ground," the President said.
"Yesterday the Serbian police went into the coal mines and refused to
fire on the coal miners," he said. "Today in the Parliament building
there are, as I've said, thousands of young people like you, and
not-so-young people like me, standing up there, saying they want their
country back, they want to be free, they voted and they want their
vote respected.
"We have made the world, I believe, more safe against force and
selfish aggression," said Clinton. "But we know, like (Theodore)
Roosevelt and (Woodrow) Wilson before us, that no peace is lasting
unless it is backed by the consistent, dedicated leadership of nations
that have the wealth, size and power to do the right thing."
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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