The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did not count in a unipolar world. We disregarded Russia's opposition to NATO expansion, the Iraq War, and the U.S.-led military intervention in Serbia for the independence of Kosovo.
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.
We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
I was 11 and living in Kosovo. I knew I wanted to perform but didn't feel like I could do it there. So I moved back to London on my own at 15, carried on going to school, and started posting cover songs online. I had no idea how I was going to become a performer, but I felt like I had so many more opportunities being in London.
My first concert was Method Man and Redman because they came down to Kosovo.
I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo.
I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
