"We in the Congress have a duty to tackle this problem, but the solution we settle upon should not be rushed, and the solution should not be worse than the problem we are trying to solve,".
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In the longer run, however, it may be that the only way tosettletheproblem of Kosovo would be to hold a new Balkan conference, where the entire gamut of territorial and constitutional issues across the region could be discussed in the round.
In time there would be economic dividends, but long before that the mere expression of willingness to treat the application seriously would have helped all those Turks who are trying to promote democracy, tosettlethe Kurdish problem and to reduce the influence of the generals.
Because the population of 15 to 19-year-olds is set to rise over the coming decade, and because young men are taking longer tosettle down and abandon crime than in the past, theproblem looks set to get worse.