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...There's no simple answer, especially now that the most recent conflict - between Kosovo-backed Albanian insurgents and Macedonian forces around the northwestern town of Tetovo - is smoldering rather than blazing. What is certain is that nothing highlights Macedonia's problems as starkly as armed conflict, which is why the international community is scrambling to prove that whatever its grade on conflict prevention, it can do better in conflict management...
...Putin is not alone in thinking the Americans have given Albanian terrorists too much succor. But across the international community there was general agreement on the best holding pattern: keep arms and men from Kosovo out of Macedonia, back the Macedonian government in its fight against the insurgents, and hope the government wins...
...enthusiasm about beefing up their presence there. NATO officials say they're "not talking about thousands of troops," and that they're confident someone will pony up; in the meantime, patrols along the border have already been increased. The U.S. has the additional political task in Kosovo of convincing Albanian leaders, including former k.l.a. chief Hashim Thaci, to discourage their followers from heading south. "The discrimination that the ethnic Albanians face in Macedonia cannot match up to what the Serbs have had to endure here in Kosovo," said a senior American official. "The strategy of extremism can no longer...
...funneled into Skopje last week: High Representative Javier Solana, Commissioner Chris Patten, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and Bodo Hombach, special coordiNATOr of the Stability Pact. All left behind strong messages of support for the Macedonian government, while urging it to speed up its desultory efforts to meet longstanding Albanian demands for better political and economic standing in the country...
...Army in 1997. "This isn't the first time we're being called terrorists," says Emrush Xhemajli, president of the L.P.K. in Kosovo. "This isn't the first time we're being chastised. It's just a matter of time before NATO comes to its senses and embraces (the Albanian fighters in Macedonia), just as it did the old K.L.A." Full Story...