Mr Milosevic accused Mr Walker of bias because he had openly and immediately expressed his disgust at the killings in Racak, the Kosovo village.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo on the brink, again

And, while the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which monitors Kosovo on the ground, has closed ranks around Mr Walker and told him to stay, some European diplomats (especially French ones) were muttering that the American envoy might have been overhasty in his reaction to the Racak slaughter.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo on the brink, again