Interestingly apologetic tone.
From one point of view figures like him can afford to be apologetic since they succeeded in stopping the permanent mass expulsion of a million Kosovans. (I know it is rightly said this accelerated rapidly into a general policy after the NATO bombing started, but the depopulations arising from the 1998 war against the KLA were of the order of 1/4 million). Tony Blair too was remarkable in avoiding any militarily triumphalist tone after the defeat of Yugoslavia. His main pay back was to get his defense minister placed as head of NATO.
On the other hand the west, and probably especially the USA, is well briefed on the attitudes within Serbia of people with whom they must work. The USA has just lifted all its economic sanctions except for ones targetted against specific families. Kostunica as a lawyer probably believes strongly in the rule of (bourgoeois) law and as an anti-communist is opening the area to peace under the domination of international finance capital.
B92 is probably a good platform for Walker to send conciliatory signals, which are clearly from the hymn sheet people like him are supposed to be singing.
Chris Burford
London