The announcement of the death of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has been greeted with mixed reactions.
Milosevic's brother, Borislav, said the UN tribunal was entirely responsible for his death.
However, in the first reaction from the Serbian government, the country's Foreign Minister, Vuk Draskovic, said it was unfortunate the former Yugoslav President had not been brought to justice in Belgrade.
Groups representing the mothers and widows of Muslims massacred in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war have said they regretted his death which meant he would never face justice for the killings.
The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said he hoped the death would help the people of Serbia to look to the future.
The former High Representative and EU Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina said he regretted that Milosevic would not now face justice.
Lord Paddy Ashdown said Mr Milosevic would be remembered as a man who was responsible for many deaths in the Balkins.
‘I suppose those of us who would have wished to see justice rather than death be delivered to Milosevic will regret the fact that the justice process is halted,’ he said.
He described Milosevic as a clever, charismatic politician without much morality who was less a nationalist than an opportunist.
Meanwhile, the Russian foreign ministry said it regretted that Milosevic had not been allowed by the United Nations war crimes court to receive medical treatment in Moscow.
