Mr Duckett says: 'However poor the local infrastructure, with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish, putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site.

Perhaps our ancestors, in simpler times, imagined that some such infrastructure lay underneath the flat Earth.

At the same time, Serbia and Montenegro and the infrastructures laid to waste and destroyed by air raids, must be rebuilt, and the damage to the environment investigated and remedied. The reconstruction of Kosovo must focus not only on the economy and trade, but also on the social, civil and democratic fabric.

The country was devastated by war and occupation, and its economy and infrastructure lay in ruins.

The bonds of this union had been shattered by the dictator Siyad Barre who had unleashed a campaign of violence bordering on genocide against somaliland civilians, At the time of its reestablishment, Somaliland's towns were destroyed; its infrastructure lay in tatters and much of population were living in refugee camps.