Ivica Dacic Quotes

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

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

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.

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

These are not concentration camps, but transient centers …. You are witnessing a great moment in the history of the Serbian nation.

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

Without resolving Kashmir dispute, lasting peace cannot be maintained in the region.

Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

We hear that certain orphanages … received also the children of the Armenians. Whether this is done through ignorance of our real purpose or through contempt of it, the Government the feeding of such children or any attempt to prolong their lives as an act entirely opposed to its purpose, since it regards the survival of these children as detrimental.

It would be an advantage to justice if we were to effectively interfere for the Armenians in Turkey, and for the Jews in Russia … and in the Congo Free State.

The civil war in Sri Lanka has been one of competition for control of territories between the warring parties .... Control of areas in the North and East province seems to be the objective of military strategy, rather than defeating the enemy.

Azerbaijan has exhausted the resources of trust in terms of autonomous status for minorities within its boundaries. It was not and is not capable of providing guarantees of even internal security to such autonomies. There was once another Armenian autonomy in Azerbaijan: Nakhijevan. What happened to it? Not a single Armenian is left in Nakhijevan.

The measure of arming the Kurds is regarded with great anxiety here. This feeling is much increased by the conduct of the Kurds themselves, many of whom openly state that they have been appointed to suppress the Armenians, and that they have recieved assurances that they will not be called to answer before the tribunals for any acts of oppression commited against Christians.

The reason there IS a Turkey and there ISN'T a Kurdistan is in all of history no Kurd could ever stand by any other Kurd long enough to hold off all the hungry Arabs, Persians, Turks, Brits and other sand carnivores swimming around the Fertile Crescent.

Live and let live has never been a Balkan rule…. Following five centuries of subjugation the Balkan peoples have had only half a century of freedom for experiment in nationhood,--a half-century, too, which has been distracted by the plots and counter-plots of foreign statesmen.