“"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.”

—  Richard Holbrooke

Source: 1990s, To End a War (1998), p. 291

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