[Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 6:40 AM Subject: FYROM PM Accuses NATO-Run Kosovo Of Waging War [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010812/1/1bej4.html "I, personally, consider this an official declaration of war by the international protectorate of Kosovo and by the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), which is unfortunately part of the UN civil administration in Kosovo. "This is an unprecented event in international politics, in which a sovereign and democratic country has been the object of aggression from an international protectorate of the United Nations." Monday August 13, 3:46 AM Macedonian PM accuses UN-run Kosovo of waging war SKOPJE, Aug 12 (AFP) - Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski accused the United Nations protectorate of Kosovo of waging war against his country, in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan made public Sunday. Georgievski said in a message read in Macedonian on state television that 600 members of a militia supported by Kosovo's international administration had crossed into Macedonia on Saturday and attacked government forces. "I, personally, consider this an official declaration of war by the international protectorate of Kosovo and by the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), which is unfortunately part of the UN civil administration in Kosovo," Georgievski said. "This is an unprecedented event in international politics, in which a sovereign and democratic country has been the object of aggression from an international protectorate of the United Nations," the letter to Annan said. The hardline Macedonian leader repeated Skopje's longstanding criticism of Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeeping force, accusing it of allowing ethnic Albanian fighters to cross the border with impunity. Both Georgievski and President Boris Trajkovski, who wrote separately to NATO Secretary General George Robertson to complain about the incursion, accused the rebels of firing shells from bases within the UN-run province. The guerrilla's military leader, Gezim Ostreni denied that the KPC was helping its fellow ethnic Albanians south of the border. "The KPC is not involved in Macedonia and has not fired from Kosovo ... in Macedonia there is only one Albanian armed force, and that's the National Liberation Army (NLA)," Ostreni told Kosovo television. Ostreni was himself a high-ranking member of the KPC until March this year, when he was sacked after taking leave and returning to his home town of Debar, in Macedonia, to join the NLA. Georgievski also attacked Kosovo's chief UN administrator, Hans Haekkerup, urging Annan to "think about releasing him from his duties". Macedonian forces on Saturday exchanged fire with a group of ethnic Albanian rebels near the village of Radusa, two kilometres (one mile) south of the republic's frontier with Kosovo. Government officials said that the rebels had crossed from Kosovo 15 kilometres (nine miles) northwest of Skopje and surrounded a police unit. The KPC was set up by NATO and the United Nations in 1999 to provide employment for former guerrillas of the officially disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army. The unit -- which receives funding, training and equipment from Western countries -- was supposed to be an unarmed civil defence militia, but its members have frequently been implicated in criminal activity inside and outside the province. KPC leaders make no secret of their ambition to one day form the basis for the army of an independent Kosovo, but have denied involvement in the six-month ethnic Albanian uprising in Macedonia. Trajkovski called on NATO and the United Nations to shut down the KPC's training camps, state television reported. Georgievski and his nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party are due to sign a peace accord Monday with the leaders of Macedonia's three other main democratic parties -- including two representing ethnic Albanians. The government in Skopje on Sunday called a unilateral ceasefire to prepare the ground for the signing, but Georgievski warned that the rebels were not ready to make peace. "Today when the political parties in Macedonia are one step towards signing the peace agreement, the Albanian paramilitary groups organised by the KPC continue with their aggression," the letter said. "That confirms that they don't want any kind of agreement and it shows that they are not interested in peace," he said. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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.a9spWC 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 ==^================================================================
