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As NATO deploys its troops in Macedonia, the international press has missed the news that a timeframe has not yet been stipulated
41 British soldiers will perform trial runs among Albanian rebels this week after sporadic violations of the ceasefire by Albanian terrorists in northern Macedonia. Further contingents of 360 troops and later, another group of 680, will join the vanguard in the near future. The mission commander, Brigadier White-Spunner, said, “What I am going to be doing here is assessing the conditions on the ground. We are looking specifically for an enduring and proper ceasefire”.
It seems likely that brigadier White-Spunner will have to show monumental doses of patience such as those shown by the Macedonian armed forces. Macedonian Defence Minister Vlado Buckovski confirmed that Albanian extremists had engaged in skirmishes with he Macedonian troops during Saturday morning. Government positions in Tetovo and Kumanovo were attacked and a group of Albanians crossed the border near Rudine, attacking a police station.
Brigadier White-Spunner declared that NATO would not attempt to disarm the Albanian rebels until the security situation is stabilised. “Violations such as we had yesterday are unacceptable because they show there really is not good faith”, he said.
Meanwhile the new Albanian faction to surface, the Albanian National Army (ANA), has called for all Slavic forces from the NATO contingent of 3,500 troops from 9 countries to pull out. The ANA claims to have military bases in Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia and has declared that it intends to use these to launch its campaign to create a Greater Albania, according to AFP. The ANA has already declared that it does not accept the ceasefire signed in Skopje.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
LISBON PORTUGAL
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