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I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.