Cook in 1999, from the Guardian:

I last met Vetan the week after we liberated Kosovo. That day among the people of Pristina I saw the joy of freedom.

I also saw the horror of oppression.

I stood at the door of a farmhouse and saw the remains of thirty people lying where they had been shot.

Mostly crawled into the corners in a desperate, futile attempt to hide from the bullets.

In Kosovo Europe witnessed the greatest persecution of a whole people since the days of Hitler or Stalin.

We acted because the age of mass deportation and ethnic cleansing belongs to Europe's past. We are not going to let it come back.

Milosevic was beaten in Kosovo. If our predecessors in Government had acted as decisively to stop him in the past decade then we would never have seen the tragedy of Kosovo.

Or Bosnia. Since the Serb army pulled out of Kosovo there is a new spirit of hope in Bosnia. The rate at which Bosnian refugees are going back has almost trebled now they know Milosevic is not coming back.

Our victory must be a turning point for all the Balkans. Serbia has seven neighbours. Every one of them was solid in their support for our action.

We owe it to them to be equally solid in helping them build a new future for the Balkans.

(Skip over hymn to the People's Republic of Europe.)

The isolationists in the Tory Party see every new partnership with foreigners as a threat.

As internationalists, we do not find working with foreigners unpatriotic.

Labour wants Britain to be part of the modern world, not a prisoner of its past.

We recognise globalisation demands a New Internationalism.

And our internationalism recognises that we cannot deliver our domestic programme working alone in the world.

Our internationalism recognises that the boundaries of national interest have shifted.

As Kofi Annan said to the United Nations 'in the global era, the collective interest is the national interest'.

Our internationalism recognises that rights belong to the people not to their governments.

We ignored Milosevic when he tried to tell us that atrocities were an internal matter. Gross breaches of humanitarian law are the business of all humanity.

Vetan Surroi began by telling us what it was like to be liberated from oppression.

The campaign we fought in Kosovo was not fought to gain us territory or to bring us greater power.

What prompted us to intervene, what motivated us to maintain the resolve of the alliance, was our values -freedom, justice, compassion - basic human decency.

Those are the values that gained Labour the support of the British people. And those are the values that are gaining Britain under Labour new respect around the world.

Boldface mine. Nothing political here, folks.