Joseph J. DioGuardi: “I think that it is time for the U.S. to realize that, by abandoning the Balkans to the European Union, we have failed.”

There is racism by the Slavic Macedonians and Slavic Serbs. There is actual racism against the Albanian people today.

The problem we have got in Macedonia is so simple, it is black and white. Macedonia is an apartheid state in the middle of Europe.

But there is a big difference in the self-determination that the Kosovars wanted and the Serbs want.

Gruevski's attempt to be sure that there would be no reforms, that there would be no new government, because he knows how high his crimes are.