Successive American presidents have continued to proclaim human rights, democracy and the rule of law as the guiding values of their foreign policy.

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Finally, throughout the rule-making process, safety has remained our guiding principle, and it will continue to be our number one priority.

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This old revolutionary slogan was, it seems, a guiding principle for the leaders of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority during the dark years of direct rule from Serbia which followed the suppression of the province's autonomy in 1989.

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