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I'm Janes Janče, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and current leader of the opposition.

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There is no secret magic formula to solve all these problems with one move.

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Military intervention is wrong when this is first option.

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Sometimes, only soft power is not enough, so it has to be supported.

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But soft power should always be the first approach.

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For the Middle East, the problem is that very often those two approaches were mixed,

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so the role was not right.

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And this is one of the reasons we are facing such confusion there.

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A few years ago I was still Prime Minister, I spoke at the United Nations at the annual meeting of General Assembly.

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At that time together with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy we prepared special initiative to be able to react on time.

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to upgrade the current conventions of the United Nations to become more powerful, to become more fit for current situation.

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This was the time when the crisis in Syria was at the beginning.

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It was possible, if they would listen to us, hundreds of thousands of people live to be sold.

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Also to prevent important part of migratory crisis, which heated the European Union, causing all kinds of troubles, Brexit included.

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But during the last eight years the political class of Western civilization has proved somehow that it is not fit for the situation.

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There is lack of free leadership. We missed people, as they were Helmut Kohl, Konrad Adenauer, Mitterrand, Vaclav Havel,

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who were on stage when strategic changes happened in Europe 25 years ago.

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But now this generation of leaders went from stage and new generation was not capable to find right answers to these challenges.

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So I think that this is our first goal, or this is the first goal of the electorate in the many European countries,

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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,

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and then to show real leadership also for the neighbourhood and to be able to really shape at least the neighbourhood,

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help the people reorganize the development aid, enhance communication, help to build institutions in African states.

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So we know the solutions. The West has enough resources. It's rich enough to do all this. The real problem is leadership.

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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.

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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.

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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,

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lack of leadership, lack of seeing the forest, not only the trees from the sun capitals,

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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,

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standing together against such atrocities, which are happening now in parts of Middle East, this should be a very good step.