From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FYROM: Deuschland Uber Alles [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Germany Reported Ready to Take Command of New NATO Mission BERLIN, Sep 24, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Germany is ready to take command of a new NATO mission in Macedonia once the present operation to collect ethnic Albanian rebel arms is completed, according to the Sunday edition of Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. The report, referring to sources close to the German government, said Berlin made the proposal last week at NATO, after Britain's decision not to supply forces for the follow-up to Operation Essential Harvest. The current mission, which is in its final phase, is due to end on Wednesday. A smaller contingent of a few hundred soldiers composed of French, German and Italian units is due to remain, together with logistical and helicopter support from the United States. This force would protect observers from the European Union and Europe's OSCE security organization who will check whether a peace accord, which still has to be implemented by the Macedonian parliament, is being respected. But the newspaper report says the German proposal must first be clearly defined by NATO before getting final approval from the UN. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Thursday that Germany was ready to provide soldiers for the new mission. Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski has written to NATO officially asking for a contingent of troops to remain in the country ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
