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TIME.com: NATO says its ready to send troops into Macedonia to help disarm ethnic-Albanian rebels there. Is their deployment imminent...
...There's no agreement, not even a tentative one, among the members of the coalition (which includes ethnic Albanian parties) on the sorts of changes necessary. Parties representing the Slavic majority accuse the ethnic-Albanian parties of making wholly unacceptable political demands, which they're not prepared to consider. And there are no public channels open to even discuss these issues with the rebel National Liberation Army. The rebels presented their own peace plan last week, which includes some relatively extreme suggestions - such as incorporating NLA fighters into a reconstituted national army and police force, and including their commanders...
...country's three-month-old insurgency ends up triggering more problems. Last week, E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana thought he had worked out a way to hold Macedonia's fragile "national unity" government together. But shortly after he left the capital, Skopje, a key ethnic Albanian party backed out of the deal...
...that overture too was spurned-first by leading Macedonian Slav members of the government, who accused the Prime Minister of selling out, and then by an ethnic Albanian politician who charged that Georgievski was just trying to provoke extremists. "We cannot accept the way Georgievski talks about this," said Azis Polozhani of the Party of Democratic Prosperity. "That is inflammatory talk that could push the country deeper into crisis...
...Boris Trajkovski, is based on an effort that seemed to work last month in neighboring Serbia. The President offered an amnesty to all rebels who laid down their arms, except top commanders, those who organized the rebellion and those who could be proved to have committed war crimes. Ethnic Albanian leader Arben Xhaferi called the proposal "interesting" but said "we should discuss it with those who are waging the war." Unfortunately for Macedonia, the same men who started the war must now be relied...