I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.
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