During this period many Americans spoke out against the treaty and the renunciation of the claim to Texas.

Not a confession of wrong-doing; merely a renunciation of the claim because it was made in error.

Diplomats said this amounted to a renunciation of the claim made in the past by Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian President, and by other Serbian nationalists that all Serbs in the old Yugoslavia had the right to be included in a single state that others called "a Greater Serbia."