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Article: European Leaders Meet With Putin
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ROBERT WIELAARD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-23-2001
European Leaders Meet With Putin
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that recent fighting in Macedonia demonstrates that Moscow was justified to crack down hard on secessionist forces in Chechnya.
Putin suggested that unless ethnic Albanian insurgents in Slav-dominated Macedonia are dealt with ``in a robust manner'' -- much as Russia did with Chechen rebels -- unrest in that country ``will create the conditions for shaking Europe in its very heart.''
``I am not confident that other countries in the (Balkan) region are secure,'' Putin said at a news conference after talks with European Union ...