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Article: European envoys make last-ditch attempt to pull back Macedonia from brink of civil war
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2001
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THE MOST senior envoys from Nato and the European Union, Lord
Robertson of Port Ellen and Javier Solana, flew to Macedonia
yesterday to try to prevent civil war.
The past few days have seen the most serious fighting yet between
government forces and the Albanian rebels of the National Liberation
Army (NLA), and foreign targets, including the British embassy, have
been attacked in two nights of anti-Western riots in the capital,
Skopje.
Lord Robertson, the Nato secretary general, who has described the
situation in Macedonia this week as "critical", said as he arrived
yesterday that he and Mr Solana, the EU's security affairs chief,
understood how much was at stake. "If we can help to get ...