BUSH: NO MISSION CREEP TO MACEDONIA The Bush administration has told its NATO partners that it does not want to take part in a NATO military mission that the Macedonian government has requested for the disarming of ethnic Albanian insurgents, according to The New York Times. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/world/16DIPL.html?searchpv=day02 ) NATO ambassadors met in Brussels last week to discuss how such a Balkan mission would be configured, and they authorized military aides to come up with plans over the weekend that could involve sending NATO troops to Macedonia, once part of Yugoslavia. The Macedonian government made a formal request this week to NATO's secretary general, Lord George Robertson, for NATO soldiers to oversee the disarming of the insurgents as part of a political solution to the roiling civil conflict there. In the new study "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 recent eruption of fighting in Macedonia and in Serbia's Presevo Valley shows the bankruptcy of Washington's Balkan policy. He recommends that the United States disengage and let the European countries grapple with the situation. Miroslav Antic, http://www.antic.org/ Serbian News Network - SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/
