MESSAGE FROM SERBIA

PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC OFFERS HIMSELF AS A PEACE BROKER, BUT WILL ANYONE BUY?

We believe that Serbs have the legitimate right to live in one country. If we must fight, then, by God, we will fight. --Slobodan Milosevic, 1991

Why think about national states and ethnic purity at the end of the 20th century? The main rule of the contemporary world is integration. Nationalism isolates people. It is crippling. -Slobodan Milosevic, 1995

Milosevic wanted to talk -- and talk he did. In five hours of conversation with TIME editors in his office in Belgrade, the President of Serbia had a succinct message for the world and specifically for the Clinton Administration: Lift the U.N.-imposed...

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