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EU AGREES ON MORE BALKANS TROOPS, LOOKS TO NATO
European Union foreign ministers agreed today on the need for a new international military force to provide security in Macedonia after a NATO weapons-collection mission ends later this month, according to The Washington Post. (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2293-2001Sep10.html )But the ministers remained undecided on the exact makeup of the force, other than to say it should be led by NATO because the European Union itself is not ready to lead it.
In "Waist Deep in the Balkans and Sinking: Washington Confronts the Crisis in Macedonia," (
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-397es.html ) Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter writes that the continued fighting in Macedonia shows the bankruptcy of Washington's Balkan policy. He recommends that the United States disengage and let the European countries grapple with the situation."For Washington's deepening diplomatic and military involvement in Macedonia is not driven by any meaningful concern about the fate of that small country," writes foreign policy analyst Gary Dempsey in "Intervention Protection." (
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-02-01.html ) "It is instead driven by a desire to keep NATO's flawed Kosovo intervention from unraveling and becoming a colossal embarrassment."------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down
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