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Watch: Alex Salmond speaks at North Macedonia conference hours before his death
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10/13/2024
Alex Salmond speaks at North Macedonia conference hours before his deathSource: Its Academy of Cultural Diplomacy
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I'm always reluctant to teach lessons to other people in other countries.
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And can I just say to the president here that if I say anything wrong,
00:10
then I will not be buying lunch for lots of people.
00:14
I'm Scottish after all, we don't do these sort of things.
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President Ivanov, Your Excellencies.
00:20
There were many successful things about the process of trying to reclaim Scottish independence.
00:29
There was no violence.
00:31
I mean, Scotland is not unique in the world, but it's unusual
00:35
in that the process of self-determination in the modern era in Scotland,
00:41
in the democratic era, has been achieved without a single person losing their life.
00:48
In fact, nobody's had so much as a nosebleed.
00:51
I think the worst success in the entire referendum campaign of ten years ago
00:56
was that somebody got an egg thrown at them, which is hardly in the great excesses of politics.
01:02
So that was an extraordinary success.
01:06
I need to thank the School of Young Leaders and the initiative for...
01:10
Respect for legitimate democratic aspirations leads to good outcomes.
01:18
Disrespecting it in one way or another, and often surprisingly,
01:23
can lead to bad outcomes for everyone.
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