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...only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of the KLA stripe to be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is also considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops police the border between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. NATO secretary general Lord Robertson, who is to meet with President Bush on Thursday, announced Tuesday that he hoped a decision would be taken this week on the proposal, which has alarmed Albanian nationalist politicians in Kosovo...
...sensibilities of Kosovo's Albanian leaders may have diminished in importance in NATO eyes as the territory has become a launching pad for Albanian nationalist insurgencies inside Serbia proper and in Macedonia. Those developments have put Western troops, who are charged with controlling Kosovo's borders, on a collision course with elements of their erstwhile allies in the KLA who are now seeking new targets. U.S. troops on Wednesday wounded two ethnic Albanian guerrillas in a firefight near the Macedonian village of Tanusevci, marking a dangerous new escalation of the risk to NATO forces in the region. With Yugoslavia...
...campaign against Kosovo's remaining Serbs and other minorities as NATO for the most part stood passively by. Still, most of NATO remained strongly opposed to the nationalist demand for independence for Kosovo, on the grounds that this would destabilize the region by provoking new Albanian-Slav wars in Macedonia and other parts of the region...
...campaign promise to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, may have prompted Albanian nationalists across the region to step up their campaign for a Greater Albania, by launching new insurgencies in Serbia's Presevo Valley (which falls in a demilitarized buffer zone adjacent to Kosovo) and in northern Macedonia. But in the absence of Serb abuse and ethnic cleansing, NATO has shown little tolerance for the new Albanian adventurism...
...platform of having restored prosperity. The Turkish military, which watched the clash in stunned silence, probably would prefer a cabinet reshuffle and perhaps a national-unity government with a few members of its own choosing. For now, though, the generals have urged Ecevit-who was visiting Macedonia while Sezer was in Egypt-not to resign and add to the air of instability. For its part, the U.S. applauded Ankara's decision to float the lira, saying its nato ally-an important bulwark in a volatile region-had been achieving important macroeconomic and structural goals and would continue...