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...surprising, therefore, that President Bush has no taste for deepening that commitment. He made abundantly clear, for example, that Washington has no appetite for direct involvement in heading off the looming civil war in neighboring Macedonia. He simply urged all sides to return to the negotiating table and urged Kosovo?s Albanians to stay out of the fray. But renewed fighting in the town of Tetovo, sparked by rebel forces taking advantage of a Western-brokered cease-fire to occupy new territory, underlined doubts that NATO?s diplomacy - preemptive nation-building, if you like - will be sufficient to stop...
...billion to Yugoslavia. International donors said that the loans and grants were intended to help the Yugoslav Federation rebuild its economy. Milosevic, the first former head of state to face a war-crimes tribunal, will appear before the court this week to hear the charges against him. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Mediators pulled Macedonia back from civil war after the evacuation of armed ethnic Albanian rebels from a village near the capital sparked violent Macedonian Slav protests. Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity - a new E.U. envoy, François Léotard, arrived in Skopje - NATO approved...
...Kosovo from early 1998 until June 1999, when prosecutors entered Kosovo with nato troops after the alliance's bombing campaign. But the tribunal managed to cull testimony from a variety of sources, such as nongovernmental observers who were in Kosovo during the Serb cleansing and refugees who fled to Macedonia...
...NATO's reluctance to put its foot down in Macedonia is understandable: Confronting Albanian extremism - which the alliance itself appears has identified as the primary source of the current violence there - potentially exposes alliance troops to risks of a backlash both in Macedonia and in Kosovo. And there is no doubt that the Macedonian military's tendency to rain down bombs and shells on villages occupied by the guerrillas will drive many Macedonian Albanians into the arms of the rebels. Yet the absence of any strong disincentive for the guerrillas to continue fighting may be the fatal flaw of NATO...
...current talks being encouraged by the U.S. involve constitutional changes to accord the Albanian minority greater rights in Macedonia. But having so successfully determined the agenda through their insurgency, it takes a substantial leap of faith (and blindness to the region's recent history) to imagine that the hard men in the hills will simply turn in their Kalashnikovs when the lawyers in Skopje have finessed constitutional changes...