Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Member of the Macedonian Parliament on Hunger Strike SKOPJE, Aug 8, 2001 -- (dpa) A member of the Macedonian parliament started a hunger strike on Tuesday to express his dissatisfaction with the security situation in the country. Milanco Cerkezov, a member of the VMRO-VMRO party, said he would conduct his protest in the parliament building to draw attention to occupation of 15 percent of the country and the displacement of 100,000 Macedonians. The politician's move came as the Macedonian government and ethnic Albanian leaders tried to hammer out a peace deal to end eight months of fighting between gov't forces and ethnic Albanian rebels. The vice president of parliament, Iljaz Halimi, announced Tuesday that he was resigning from the Security Council because it had met only once in almost three months and he was not invited to that session held last Monday. Halimi, an ethnic Albanian, said in a letter to Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski that he felt he had been snubbed because of his race. [By way of 'balance.'] (C)2001. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
