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His public statements during the NATO bombing campaign  have been few. \u003cbr/\u003eThis interview was conducted in Belgrade,Yugoslavia, on April 19. The interviewer is an  American academic - Ron Hatchett, from the Centre for International Studies at   Houston's University of Saint Thomas. Hatchett arranged the trip to interview the  Yugoslav leader  with the help of \u003cbr/\u003eUS -Serbian organisations. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the interview Milosevic gives his reaction to NATO's prolonged bombing campaign  and talks about the allegations that Yugoslav forces and Serbian police are \"ethnically  cleansing\" Kosovo. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says ethnic Albanians are not being forcibly expelled and that the refugee crisis is a  direct result of NATO's bombing. There were no refugees, he alleges, until the allied air  campaign began on March 24th.\u003cbr/\u003eMilosevic also discusses the fate of the U-S POWs, saying that they are in good health  and that the Geneva Convention will be respected. \u003cbr/\u003eLooking back at the Rambouillet Talks, whose failure prompted a renewed and  intensified  Serb onslaught in Kosovo and NATO air strikes in its wake, Milosevic was  dismissive.\u003cbr/\u003eThere were no negotiations, he says.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says the ethnic Albanian and Serb delegations never held talks and that his  emissaries only met Americans.     \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"There were no negotiations at all and your audience has to know that. In all those 3  longs weeks, two in Rambouillet and one in Paris, there were not one single meeting  between the delegations to talk to each other. Albanians and Serbs and others in state  delegation couldn't exchange one single word. Practically what was tried to be imposed  in Rambouillet was not autonomy at all. That was independence. And I really don't  believe, if you show it to any honest American, that there is one honest American who  will tell you that if they were in the place of our delegation, they would sign it. We are  talking on autonomy, on equality, on equal approach to interest of all national  communities, not on independence of Albanian separation movement, which had by  that so-called agreement practically the right to organise a new state within Serbia.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Oh no, I was not a politician. Professionally I was in the industry for a long time and  then I was a banker. And I was a banker for eight years, I was president of the largest  Yugoslav bank. At that time we were dealing with lots of American banks and I had a lot  of friends in the U-S.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"There was never a policy of this country and my policy to expel any city of Yugoslavia  from any part of this country. I must tell you when then was a war in Croatia we  protected all Croats in Serbia; we protected when there was a war in Bosnia, we  protected all Muslims in Serbia. We preserved all the multi-ethnic state within former  Yugoslavia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia today with 26 different national  communities. You know that before March 24, when they started the damn bombing,  the dirty aggression against this country, there was no one single refugee. When they  started bombing, the refugees appeared of course as a result of bombing and everybody  knows it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I believe when aggression stops, when bombing stops, then it will be very easy to  continue the political process. But taking into account experience from Rambouillet and  Paris, it is so clear that negotiations have to be direct between who will live in Kosovo,  between representatives of national communities who live in Kosovo, not between  government of Yugoslavia, government of Serbia and let's say representatives of  international community.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"In Rambouillet, we are not talking to Albanians, we are talking to Americans, who  would like to take our territory for themselves and for NATO. And Albanians were just an  excuse for them, they were keeping in a side room to be their alibi for doing those  crimes, which your government committed against our country, against our people.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well in the situation in which we are, I think the question is what with those civilians  who are the victims of your soldiers and pilots. And I hope you will start thinking that  way. But to answer your question, we are very old people in Europe, with a long  tradition and we respect prisoners of war. Nothing will happen to your soldiers, they are  treated well, they are healthy, and in everything the Geneva Convention is respected.  So, we are civilized, we will not damage your guys.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The U-N charter prohibits aggression, prohibits even military intervention without  decision of the Security Council. In this case, you abolished the U-N. Practically your  bombing destroyed first the U-N, destroyed the truth and of course the saddest thing for  us: killing our civilians, and ruining our factories, bridges, housing areas, residential  areas and all those things.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003e Belgrade, Yugoslavia April 19, 1999 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Set-up shot of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003e2. Soundbite: (English),  Slobodan Milosevic\u003cbr/\u003e3. 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