Word: macedonian
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...essence, the Western-mediated talks have separated the issue of peace from the issue of political reforms, much to the chagrin of Macedonian nationalists. And the question of whether the current deal, even in the best-case scenario, leads to a suspension of hostilities may be decided primarily by those waging...
...left in the city's airport car park. Popular tourist destinations were on alert after suspected ETA member Olaia Castresana blew herself up as she handled explosives in the Mediterranean resort of Torrevieja. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Dangerously close to all-out war, the two sides in the Macedonian conflict gave way to persuasion and declared another cease-fire. Under pressure from international mediators, rebel ethnic Albanian fighters, who had occupied the area around Tetovo, north of the capital Skopje, began to withdraw as Albanian politicians agreed to meet government representatives. Thousands of civilians had quit the town earlier...
...inexorably toward center stage. Once decried by NATO as "murderers in the hills," they have now become a de facto negotiating partner of the Western alliance. Of course NATO isn't talking about including them in political talks just yet - it's hoping to broker a deal among the Macedonian and ethnic-Albanian political parties that have all participated in the country's democratic system until now. But from the guerrillas' point of view, it's only as long as they're waging war that anyone's even talking to them. And that isn't exactly an incentive to turn...
...cease-fire back from the dead for the umpteenth time, but few are optimistic about the prospects for saving the patient. Ethnic-Albanian guerrillas began withdrawing Thursday from territory they seized in and around the second city of Tetovo, and plans were underway to bus back some of the Macedonian civilians forced by the rebels to flee their homes. And while that may have averted the immediate threat of an inevitably bloody offensive by the Macedonian security forces to drive out the insurgents, the latest cease-fire may be little more than a holding pattern until the next outbreak...
...NATO secretary general Lord Robertson and EU security chief Javier Solana arrived in Skopje Thursday in a bid to restart political talks, facing a government increasingly hostile to what it perceives as Western bias towards the insurgents. Indeed, the Macedonian government had made clear that it had no interest in further discussion with Western mediators unless rebel forces retreated to positions they held when the last cease-fire was signed on July 5. The guerrillas have done so, under the weight of Western pressure, but there's no reason to believe they won't simply press forward again a week...