STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday July 1, 3:52 AM Germany denies report it will not participate in NATO Macedonia force BERLIN, June 30 (AFP) - The German defense ministry Saturday denied a press report that it would not participate in a potential NATO intervention in Macedonia to help disarm ethnic Albanian rebels. "The article in (the daily) Welt am Sonntag is wrong," a spokesperson for the ministry and for the head of the German Bundeswehr said in a statement. The head of the Bundeswehr, General Harold Kujat, had reportedly told the Sunday paper that NATO units due to head to Macedonia after a political settlement has been reached had already been designated, and Germany was not part of them. "The 3,000 soldiers come mostly from France, Britain, Italy and Greece with support from the United States," he was quoted as saying. The spokesperson said the German government had publicly told NATO its army would participate in an intervention in Macedonia only under strict NATO guidelines, and with "parliamentary approval of the mission." Germany's Social Democratic Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder had last Thursday offered his country's military support -- with up to 600 German soldiers -- for the intervention force, saying Germany could not remain outside any such operation. Such support will likely create tension within the ruling Red-Green [rather Brown-Black] coalition as well as draw fire from the opposition conservatives. NATO suggested ten days ago that volunteer countries could send troops to Macedonia to establish collection sites in a possible guerrilla disarmament operation. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
