1.   Back then, Yugoslavia was still a multi-ethnic Balkan federation.

2.   Back then, Yugoslavia was still a Balkan federation featuring a mix of Serbs and Macedonians and millions of Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians who mistrusted Moscow.

3.   Chirac, on a two-day visit to the trouble-prone Balkan federation of Serbia and Montenegro, met first with President Vojislav Kostunica.

4.   Macedonia is the only former Yugoslav republic which seceded from the Balkan federation without bloodshed.

5.   Macedonia is the only former Yugoslav republic which seceded from the former Balkan federation without bloodshed.

6.   Macedonia, the southernmost and the poorest former Yugoslav republic, is the only one that seceded from the Balkan federation without bloodshed.

7.   Macedonia is the only former Yugoslav republic that left the former Balkan federation without bloodshed and so far has managed to keep its ethnic tensions under control.

8.   Macedonia is the only former Yugoslav republic that seceded from the Balkan federation without bloodshed.

9.   Macedonia is the only former Yugoslav republic that seceded from the former Balkan federation without bloodshed.

10.   Macedonia, the only former Yugoslav republic that seceded from the Balkan federation without bloodshed, already has signed similar agreements with nine other European countries.