War in the Balkans: Quotes
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Your support makes all the difference."To get the refugees back by winter, we need some progress on the political front soon. Winterising the camps is the last thing we want to do"
Kofi Annan,
UN secretary-general
"We have to keep the [Kosovo-Macedonia] border open. If that border becomes closed then these desperate people will rot in Kosovo"
Kris Janowski, spokesman for the UN refugee agency
"In eight days at the most, you will see the bombings will have stopped and everything will be ended ... That's my opinion. I can't say anything more"
Vuk Draskovic, former Yugoslav deputy premier
"I am well aware of the strains the Nato campaign has created for US-Russian relations and for Nato-Russian relations, and also the strains in Russia itself"
Strobe Talbott, US deputy secretary of state
"Nato decided to show who is the boss in the world. We are seeing the prospect of a new cold war, maybe even a hot war, and that would be grave"
Mikhail Gorbachev,
former Soviet leader
"The information we are receiving is allowing us to continue building the evidence of quite massive crimes ... This includes eyewitness accounts"
Paul Risley, spokesman for UN war crimes investigators
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