"Of all of the participants I personally find Mlan Kućan [president of Slovenai] and Kiro Gligorov [president of Croatia] most appealing. For my taste they are two peple who are democrats. On the other side stand two men who will probably play a decisive role—Tudjman and Milošević. . . Both in my opnion are people who are insufficiently flexible [and] . . . in the business of negotiating, is usually a defect . . . some people are simply incapable of compromise. . . . it seems to me that if Serbia and Croatia were headed by people such as Gligorov and Kućan, Yugoslavia would find easier to extricate itself."
Alija Izetbegović, During the meetings of Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia. December 1990
IMAGE; Sarajevo, January 2005 Photo Kyong Park