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Not hardly. The tragedy in Macedonia - and Kosovo - is the 'consummation devoutly to be wished' of the globalist criminals.] Friday July 20 9:06 AM ET EU Monitors Killed in Macedonia As Peace Hopes Fade By Daniel Simpson SKOPJE (Reuters) - A three-man European Union team was found dead in Macedonia on Friday after their vehicle was blown into a ravine by a mine while monitoring a fragile cease-fire in the divided former Yugoslav republic. The Norwegian and Slovakian monitors and their translator, from Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority, disappeared on Thursday in hills near Tetovo, a flashpoint town in five months of fighting between government forces and Albanian guerrillas. Their deaths are the first among a growing number of international officials in Macedonia hoping to secure peace. In the capital Skopje, 30 miles away, Western envoys struggled to salvage a political deal to end the rebellion that has dragged the tiny Balkan state toward civil war. Prospects for peace have worsened since the Macedonian government condemned the latest Western proposals as tantamount to dividing the country at the behest of separatist rebels. Macedonian leaders want to return to earlier versions of the peace plan and accused Albanian parties of blocking progress by failing to show up for talks on Thursday. Gloomy diplomats worry nationalist Macedonian rhetoric could block compromise on a package of reforms granting Albanians more civil rights in the hope of avoiding major bloodshed. ``I hope the Macedonians don磘 try to shred the process apart, but I don磘 know what their ultimate goal is. I hope it is to get a political deal,创 one Western diplomat said. ``But there are some irrational people involved here and that磗 very dangerous.创 U.S. envoy James Pardew and the EU's Francois Leotard have persuaded Albanian parties to send constitutional experts back to the table in a bid to keep the talks alive. But serious negotiations have all but collapsed. There are no plans for party leaders to meet unless new proposals on the sensitive issues of language rights and police reforms emerge. CEASEFIRE UNDER STRAIN Each day of deadlock increases fears that a NATO-brokered truce, which has contained fighting for 15 days, will unravel. ``The longer this goes on the more fragile the cease-fire becomes,创 warned NATO磗 resident ambassador Hansjoerg Eiff. Macedonian newspapers poured scorn on the insistence of Albanian leaders that they could not compromise on demands that their language gain official status, accusing them of being in the pockets of the National Liberation Army (NLA) rebels. Diplomats admit it will be tough to overcome the perception among many Macedonians that their country is being carved up at gunpoint, despite the fact that the rejected plan would merely devolve some power and make Albanian a semi-official language. ``Tensions are rising,创 a Western diplomat said. ``We磖e down to the last issues but the gulf will be very hard to bridge.创 Albanian parties, whose room for maneuver is limited by the need to sell a deal to the NLA if it is to be induced to disarm, say their Macedonian rivals want to restart talks from scratch. Despite the stalemate, no politician is yet advocating a return to the battlefield to attack the NLA guerrillas who have seized swathes of Macedonia's northern hills. ``We are in a very difficult phase,创 conceded President Boris Trajkovski. ``But the only solution is to find a lasting deal.创 The strain on the cease-fire is starting to show, however, as sporadic shooting grows more frequent around the main Albanian town of Tetovo, where a football stadium separates front lines. The Macedonian Defense Ministry said a new NLA mortar position had appeared in Lavce, a village just above Tetovo, and said security forces would open fire unless it was dismantled. On the streets of Skopje, people still hope a deal can be rescued, but the ethnic faultlines are slowly hardening. ``Albanian parties agreed to the plan and their job is done. It磗 up to the Macedonians,创 said Avni Sulejmani, a 37-year-old Albanian. ``If things escalate now, it will be their fault.创 Liljana Petrova, a 49-year-old Macedonian, was more worried. ``I hope common sense will prevail and that we will not have a war. But I think that is very difficult to avoid,创 she said. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
