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Article: PARAS ON STAND-BY AS NATO FEARS CIVIL WAR
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2001
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A BATTALION of British troops, most probably from the Parachute
Regiment, is set for deployment in Macedonia as part of a Nato force
to disarm Albanian rebels.
The British contingent of up to a 1,000 soldiers could fly to
Skopje over the weekend, provided a peace agreement is signed between
the Macedonian government and the rebels holding out in villages
along the country's northern border.
In the past 24 hours Nato has been putting together contingency
plans to send a brigade of around 4,000 troops to Macedonia in a bid
to prevent the country sliding into civil war.
France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Norway and the Netherlands have
all pledged military support. The force will be ...