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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.

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

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.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

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.

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.

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

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.