IMF General Secretary Marcello Malentacchi made in his May Day Message clear his concern with regard to the situation in Yugoslavia. He states that "the solution to the problem, if conditions for a stable peace are to be established, is with the total integration of the Balkans into the European Union." The ethnic cleansing and the bombing have to stop, and a peaceful solution has to be worked out by the United Nations so that the victims could return to their homes in security.