STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Sopranos fanatics, this one is for you. Tony Soprano's autographed Suburban is available for purchase on eBayTM. James Gandolfini has personally signed the vehicle. Find this and over 800 other Sopranos items for sale on eBay. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Ivanov] pointed out Russian consternation with double standards used by the West for the language issue in Macedonia, whose ethnic Albanian community accounts for a mere 20 percent of the total population, and in the post-Soviet Baltics, where Russian speakers' percentage is spectacularly greater. None of those countries has ever been reproached for restricted use of the Russian language, and they are welcome to join the European Union and NATO.... July 19,2001, Thursday RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER WARNS AGAINST PROVISOS IMPOSED ON MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT ROME, JULY 18, 2001. /RIA Novosti correspondent Igor Poushkarsky) -- Macedonia has a lawfully elected democratic government, and whatever provisos imposed on it are inadmissible when serving the interests of particular forces, especially such whose activities violate available understandings, Igor Ivanov, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, emphatically said following today's conference of the international contact group for former Yugoslavia. The conference gathered the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the U.K. and the USA. As Mr. Ivanov said to newsmen afterwards, the conferees had focused attention on the Macedonian issue in the context of negotiations underway between the government and Albanian ethnic minority spokesmen. The language issue is now in the foreground of the talks as ethnic Albanians insist on an official bilingual arrangement for Macedonia. If the government is forced into related concessions, they will breed a dangerous precedent, warned Igor Ivanov as he called to regard all current Macedonian developments in the context of their tentative influence on other Balkan countries. The minister pointed out Russian consternation with double standards used by the West for the language issue in Macedonia, whose ethnic Albanian community accounts for a mere 20 percent of the total population, and in the post-Soviet Baltics, where Russian speakers' percentage is spectacularly greater. None of those countries have ever been reproached for restricted use of the Russian language, and they are welcome to join the European Union and NATO, said Mr. Ivanov. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
