Political Quotes

“I just wanted to make sure this language does not preclude the possibility of a country like Slovenia, which is independent, has a privatized economy, had had successful free democratic elections, from joining, having the same status as the already named countries in the legislation. Slovenia clearly deserves equal standing with the other countries already named in the pending bill and merits membership on a full equality basis in NATO, because Slovenia obviously has taken its place in the family of nations as a democratic, free market-based, privatized economy. In a December 1990 plebiscite, Slovenes voted 96 percent for independence from what was then Yugoslavia. That plebiscite directed the Slovene Parliament to craft a constitution, based on democratic, representative, government principles and set June 26, 1991, as the date on which independence from Yugoslavia should be formally declared.”