The Chancellor's announcement yesterday, however, can only mean a continuing Crisis in the Province.
In four, five, nine, or 12 years' time, will we still be debating the subject in a continuing Crisis in the Province, with more hunger strikers, more British soldiers shot, and all the rest of it?
In the Minister's speech and the Appropriation order, I would have expected a remedy to be provided for the industrial Crisis in the Province.
Listening to the disagreements about what the Government are proposing, I am anxious about failing to take steps that are likely to lead to a solution of the grave Crisis in the Province, a crisis that I do not believe can continue indefinitely.
That massacre prompted the Contact Group to summon the Belgrade government and the leadership of the Kosovo Albanians to peace talks in France to resolve the Crisis in the Province by a political settlement.