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...Thus the daunting challenge facing Robertson and Solana. Moreover, the initiative remains, as ever, in the hands of the guerrillas. Their strategy of seizing new territory, holding it to the point that the army threatens to turn the conflict into a full-blown civil war, and then withdrawing at the urging of alarmed NATO representatives, has moved the guerrillas 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...
...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...
...into the European Union. When President Boris Trajkovski visited the White House in March this year, he and President Bush prayed together. And NATO's initial response to the Albanian insurgency was to dismiss the NLA as "murderers in the hills" (to quote the organization's secretary general, Lord Robertson) and vow to support the government while pressing it to make urgent reforms to improve the lot of the country's ethnic-Albanian minority...
...otard, arrived in Skopje - NATO approved a conditional plan to deploy 3,000 troops and Macedonia's Interior Ministry said it would demobilize some police reservists. Earlier in the week, U.S. President Bush signed an order barring Americans from financing the rebels, a move NATO chief George Robertson said the E.U. might follow. RUSSIA Defending Iraq Moscow said it would block a U.S.-British initiative for "smart sanctions" against Iraq and instead introduce a resolution calling for the gradual lifting of all U.N. embargoes. The move effectively thwarted Security Council plans to introduce more targeted sanctions against Iraq this week...
...Events on the ground have forced NATO's hand, and they're no longer treating the rebels as "murderers in the hills," which was the phrase (NATO Secretary General) Lord Robertson used to describe them earlier this year. NATO's intervention to broker the latest cease-fire was an attempt to reduce tensions that had been inflamed by the government offensive that started last Friday. But it appears the alliance misjudged the depths of frustration over the ethnic-Albanian uprising among Macedonian Slavs. Monday's protests started with police reservists, some of whom were given weapons over the past couple...