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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 met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

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.

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

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.

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

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

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

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.