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War in the Balkans: Quotes

Monday 31 May 1999 23:02 BST
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"(Milosevic) has to move beyond principles ... to prove that he is serious"

Robin Cook,

Foreign Secretary

"We welcome any positive development, but it's not clear all the terms have been accepted"

White House spokesman

"Even this situation, which seemed to be intractable, may be settled after all"

Sergei Stepashin, Russian Prime Minister

"Terribly wounded people were trying to crawl out of broken windows"

Branislav Ristic, head of Surdulica civil defence

"They executed my husband and my son. They killed 22 members of my family"

Qamile B, a 65-year-old woman from Prizren

"Kosovo is a very small province in a small country. But it is a big test of what we believe in"

President Bill Clinton

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