Today's Date:

With the death of Milosevic, one of the principal players – if not the major player – in the Balkans wars at the end of the twentieth century, has gone.

Above all, I’d like to have a very special thought for all those forced to suffer the ethnic cleansing which this man resolutely instigated and planned.

Never again must anyone undergo ethnic cleansing, in our Europe or anywhere else.

At a time when we believed that peace had been restored, when the European Union existed, the fact that one and a half hours away from Paris by plane, there could have been ethnic cleansing is obviously frightening. That's what we must remember at the time of Milosovic's death.

Secondly, we must also remember that Zoran Dzindzic, the then Prime Minister, had Milosevic arrested and handed over to the judicial authorities. He paid for this with his life. They assassinated him, three years ago on 12 March 2003./. .