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

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.

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

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

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.

Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

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

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.