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...MACEDONIA Rebel Army Disbands Ali Ahmeti, the leader of Macedonia's rebel ethnic Albanians, announced that as of midnight...
...MACEDONIA Weapons Collection ato declared the first week of its 30-day disarmament mission a success despite the death of a British soldier and an attack on U.S. troops near the border with Kosovo. The handover by ethnic Albanian rebels of more than a third of the targeted weapons paved the way for Macedonia's parliament to begin debating promised political reforms. But Macedonian nationalists blocked the entrances to the legislature in protest against the proposals, which would give greater rights to the ethnic Albanian minority...
TIME.com: Macedonia's parliament voted Thursday to begin debating the constitutional changes on which the peace process depends. Does this mean the process is now on track...
...Well they have nothing to lose by accepting this agreement. If the war was indeed launched simply to improve the lot of the average Albanian in Macedonia, they're on track to get everything they wanted. But it will be interesting to see whether the National Liberation Army, or armed Albanian groups, disappear as the process goes forward. Because if they stick around and keep causing trouble, it will be clear that their agenda was related more to a "Greater Albania" project than to constitutional reform...
...NATO's mission is going well within the limits it defined for itself. But the pessimism is over the larger question of whether what is being done now is going to solve the problem in Macedonia...