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...second round of weapons collection begins tomorrow, so the process is moving on and in a limited way things are looking hopeful. On the ground, distrust between the communities is profound, and there hasn't been any improvement in terms of relations between ethnic Albanians and Macedonians. There have been attacks on Albanian businesses in Skopje in recent weeks, and there's no sign of an imminent return home by people displaced in the fighting. The Albanians, in particular, are pretty pessimistic that this is real peace and that problems are now solved...
...about on the Albanian side...
...Once delivered into safe hands, Devaux was promptly handcuffed, led from the scene and later charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and illegal air activity. MACEDONIA NATO Troops Arrive Thousands of soldiers from European countries began deploying in northern Macedonia on a 30-day mission to collect arms from ethnic Albanian rebels. The disarmament plan, dubbed Operation Essential Harvest, is part of a delicate peace initiative to end seven months of hostilities along with the adoption of political reforms. Rival sides differed on the number of weapons to be collected, but reports said 3,000 had been agreed on. ISRAEL German...
...dozen Macedonian Slavs manning a roadblock on the road from Skopje north to the border with Kosovo - the main line of ground communication for NATO's operations in the Serb province. Macedonian Slavs make up the majority of the estimated 64,000 people displaced from villages in majority ethnic Albanian regions now controlled by the N.L.A. "We know this picture from Kosovo," said a black-clad elderly woman from the village of Neprosteno, near the majority ethnic Albanian city of Tetovo. "They're not going to disarm the N.L.A., they're just going to replace their old weapons with...
...Since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the West has soured on any further redrawing of Balkan borders, and NATO's initial response to the Macedonian insurgency was to denounce the NLA as "murderers" and "terrorists." The guerrillas insisted, however, that they were fighting not to carve out a separate Albanian enclave in Macedonia, but to achieve greater civil rights alongside Macedonians. NATO's deployment, in support of a political deal according those rights, is, in one sense, a calling of the NLA's bluff. Then again, the risk-averse Western alliance showed little vigor in carrying out its mandate...