STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- US envoy urges Macedonia political leaders to act SKOPJE, July 1 (Reuters) - New U.S. special envoy to Macedonia James Pardew said on Sunday the country's political leaders must take responsibility for resolving the conflict and warned proponents of force against seeking a military solution. "It is important to recognise that finding a solution here is really the responsibility of the leaders of Macedonia and so we look to them to take that responsibility, seize this moment and bring this conflict to a peaceful conclusion," he said. Pardew said on his arrival to Skopje that he would work closely with the European Union peace envoy Francois Leotard. Both were appointed in an increasingly frantic international effort to avoid an ethnic Albanian rebellion from growing into civil war. The Macedonian government has been unable to quell an ethnic Albanian rebellion that began in February and threatens to unleash an all-out civil war that could touch off a wider conflagration in the Balkans. "There are some who believe the use of force is appropriate in these circumstances, but that's not true. Those who favour the use of force are undermining the peace process," Pardew told reporters. 09:05 07-01-01 ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
