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He told the PCC that he wishes to "state categorically" that he is not related to the president of Yugoslavia, has no links with any of the former Yugoslav republics, and does not want to discuss his views on the Balkans with anyone.
The West must start a moral crusade to excise "the cancer of ethnic conflict" by rebuilding the Balkans, strengthening the economies of southeastern Europe, and eventually welcoming some more states into NATO.
It was NATO's first attempt to arrest suspected war criminals in the Balkans.
Yes, ethnic hatred runs deep in the Balkans, but Milosevic had to deliberately fan it in order to start the war, and the genocide, like all genocides, was planned and executed by a relatively small group of extremely evil people.
After being criticized, especially by the Germans, for only accepting 330 refugees so far (compared with the 10,000 now in Germany, 5,800 in Turkey, 2,354 in France, and 2,166 in Norway), the government announced Tuesday that from now on about 1,000 refugees a week would be flown to Britain from the Balkans.