I'm Janes Janče, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and current leader of the opposition.
There is no secret magic formula to solve all these problems with one move.
Military intervention is wrong when this is first option.
Sometimes, only soft power is not enough, so it has to be supported.
But soft power should always be the first approach.
For the Middle East, the problem is that very often those two approaches were mixed,
so the role was not right.
And this is one of the reasons we are facing such confusion there.
A few years ago I was still Prime Minister, I spoke at the United Nations at the annual meeting of General Assembly.
At that time together with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy we prepared special initiative to be able to react on time.
to upgrade the current conventions of the United Nations to become more powerful, to become more fit for current situation.
This was the time when the crisis in Syria was at the beginning.
It was possible, if they would listen to us, hundreds of thousands of people live to be sold.
Also to prevent important part of migratory crisis, which heated the European Union, causing all kinds of troubles, Brexit included.
But during the last eight years the political class of Western civilization has proved somehow that it is not fit for the situation.
There is lack of free leadership. We missed people, as they were Helmut Kohl, Konrad Adenauer, Mitterrand, Vaclav Havel,
who were on stage when strategic changes happened in Europe 25 years ago.
But now this generation of leaders went from stage and new generation was not capable to find right answers to these challenges.
So I think that this is our first goal, or this is the first goal of the electorate in the many European countries,
to face this situation, to find the solutions which are not extreme, which are based on the same values, on which European Union was created,
and then to show real leadership also for the neighbourhood and to be able to really shape at least the neighbourhood,
help the people reorganize the development aid, enhance communication, help to build institutions in African states.
So we know the solutions. The West has enough resources. It's rich enough to do all this. The real problem is leadership.
So I remember the initiative, which came from Turkey, to create non-flight zone in Syria, to protect one part of the country, to secure it and to help people at home.
Exactly. This was a good initiative, I supported it, but the key international players, who should do it, took a blind eye on it and they are responsible for what followed.
So Turkey was very active from the beginning. This initiative was very welcome, came on time. So it's a pity. It's a pity that lack of communication,
lack of leadership, lack of seeing the forest, not only the trees from the sun capitals,
caused some such tragedy, such tragedy. Even if we only come to the real communication among the leaders of the many religious on the world,
standing together against such atrocities, which are happening now in parts of Middle East, this should be a very good step.