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KIEV, Ukraine - Macedonian President Boris
Trajkovski thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday for his country's
position on the conflict in the Balkan nation and called for an international
conference on borders in the region, a news report said.
The two leaders
met on the sidelines of Ukrainian independence celebrations.
Russia has
supported the Macedonian government in its conflict with ethnic Albanian rebels,
and on Thursday, Putin expressed doubts that NATO's mission to disarm the rebels
would succeed.
At the meeting Friday morning, Trajkovski thanked Putin
for Russia's position on the conflict and for its role in the Balkans in
general, the Interfax news agency said.
Trajkovski called for joint
Russian and Macedonian efforts for peace in the Balkans and for an international
conference on borders and human rights in the Balkans, the agency said.
"This is the only way to bring the region out of crisis," he was quoted
as saying.
After the meeting, Putin told journalists that tension in the
Balkans stemmed from "terrorists, and not rebels who are allegedly concerned
about humanitarian, language and religious problems."
Russia, a harsh
critic of NATO actions in Kosovo, has suggested that the conflict there spilled
over into Macedonia because of the alliance's failure to disarm the Kosovo
Albanian rebels.
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