Madam Speaker, I have a question for the hon. member. I was interested to hear what he had to say in the latter part of his speech about stopping the bombing and not requiring compliance with the full five points that have been outlined by NATO and, for that matter, by the UN secretary general.
It is very similar to the point of view put forward by my leader earlier today. We need to lower the threshold for getting back to the table and not eliminate conditions altogether. It is fair for NATO to say to President Milosevic that at the very least the killing in Kosovo, the expulsion of ethnic Albanians and the other things that are being done to ethnic Albanians have to stop in return for or simultaneously with a suspension in the bombing in order to create the kind of political space in which there might be a return to the table, hopefully with the help of Russia.
We take the view, as I think the hon. member does if I understood him correctly, that demanding the Serbian people and the Serbian government adhere to all those things which might well be the subject of negotiation before they go to the negotiation table, and demanding that they adhere to things which we already know are unacceptable, is a recipe for more and more bombing without result.
I welcome the hon. member's comments and invite him to elaborate further.