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Milosevic did not die in The Hague - he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.