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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...
...face of the European Union's nascent common foreign policy is High Representative Javier Solana, the former NATO Secretary-General. Before heading off to Macedonia for more troubleshooting last Friday, he spoke about transatlantic relations with Brussels bureau chief James Graff...
...Graff: There was a lot of concern in the NATO session over Macedonia, with President Chirac insisting that the alliance should do anything to stop it getting out of hand. That was perceived to mean that if the situation deteriorated, France might push for direct deployment of alliance troops. Still, nobody's talking about that yet - the emphasis is on getting the government to make constitutional changes to address the grievances of the ethnic Albanians, and there's some concern over the level of competence of the Macedonian government, which tends to focus either on making war or making constitutional...
...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...
...Despite differences on a number of questions, the U.S. and Western Europe remain committed to the basic assumptions of NATO. And aside from the rhetoric, they've cooperated strongly on Macedonia and other crises. Part of the tension may be a product of the European Union beginning to realize its own collective political and diplomatic clout on the global stage, which will see it assuming an expanding role in relation to such conflicts as the Middle East. And that development will inevitably contain both advantages and challenges for Washington...