1.   Now, he wants nothing to do with his old federation.

2.   The Yugoslav presidency proved to be ineffective and ultimately saw the feuding ethnic factions plunge the old Yugoslav federation into war.

3.   A former Yugoslav republic, it gained independence four years ago in the breakup of the old federation.

4.   A former Communist functionary, Gligorov sought independence for Macedonia as the old Yugoslav federation broke up.

5.   Before the wars that destroyed the old federation, Communists dominated the media.

6.   Both Vujanovic and Frlec said they regretted the failure of Slovenia and Yugoslavia to establish diplomatic relations seven years after Slovenia proclaimed independence from the old federation.

7.   But the nationalist course chosen by Milosevic sped the breakup of the old federation, and helped plunge it into war.

8.   Communists sought to suppress national and religious feelings of all nations within the old Yugoslav federation.

9.   For newly independent Croatia, which seceded from the old communist federation of Yugoslavia, the dispute is a test of democracy.

10.   Gligorov is widely credited for taking Macedonia out of the old Yugoslav federation without warfare that has beset other breakaway republics.