‘This is the answering machine of Slobodan Milosevic. Please leave your threat after the beep. Thank you.’ On 8 January 1993, cartoonist Pancho illustrates the impotence of the international community in the face of the deadly conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Negotiations with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to cease hostilities have ended in failure. From left to right: US President George H. W. Bush, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, French President François Mitterrand and British Prime Minister John Major.