Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Listen to Lord Robertson, a world terrorist in his own right, pontificate on the subject of terrorism - as he continues to sponsor and support it in the Balkans.] Georgievski: FYROM will not become a protectorate Prime minister warns continued NATO presence will result in country's breakup BERLIN (Reuters) - Continued NATO military presence in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) would result almost inevitably in the country's breakup, Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski was quoted yesterday as saying. "NATO has been insisting on stationing its troops along an ethnic line dividing Slav-Macedonians and Albanians, effectively a buffer zone between the terrorists and us," Georgievski told the German news magazine Der Spiegel. "First we'll see the (NATO) mandate extended by three months, then a year and so on," he said in an interview released ahead of publication. He said he would not let FYROM, a month into a nervous peace pact, become a protectorate along the lines of Bosnia or Kosovo. He was willing to accept an international military presence with a NATO or United Nations mandate, but only on its borders with Kosovo and Albania. Georgievski said he did not believe there would be a vacuum if NATO troops withdrew. FYROM forces, with neutral observers, must be allowed to re-establish control over the country, he said. However, his government wanted to win back 12 villages with Slav-Macedonian inhabitants and to secure access roads. Georgievski said FYROM had been a prime example over the past 10 years of the way different ethnic groups could peacefully co-exist, even if coexistence had been destroyed in the space of a few months. He believed a proposed conference to assess the Balkans appeared inevitable. "The Balkans will not be at peace until a Greater Albania is formed. That's what it's about," Georgievski said, although he asserted he was not in favor of the creation of such a state. NATO chief calls for tolerance In the meantime, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson urged Slav-Macedonians yesterday to renounce the sort of intolerance that fired a decade of Balkan conflict and drove Tuesday's suicide airliner attacks on the United States. He was speaking during a visit to Skopje aimed at getting suspicious parliamentarians to start enacting reforms as the government's part of a Western-sponsored peace process with minority Albanians in which guerrillas have begun disarming. "The attack on New York and Washington... was not just an attack on the US, but on all of us, our values and our open societies. It was an attack on democracy, on religious and ethnic pluralism," Robertson said in a statement. "It is within the grasp of the people of this country to prove (terrorists) wrong because every step you make toward peace and stability will demonstrate there is no future for violence. "Every step you make toward ethnic pluralism will show there is a way other than conflict. By breaking that cycle of hatred and war, the people of this country can send a powerful message that will truly (go) around the world." __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ------------------------------------------------- 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 ==^================================================================
