MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT MEETS REPS. OF PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES

SKOPJE, June 4 (Hina) - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and the leaders of the country's parliamentary parties met on Sunday evening for talks which tackled the representation of Albanians in the administration and the decentralisation of local self- government. It was agreed the government should prepare an employment scheme and tackle activities necessary to pass a new self-government law, Trajkovski said after the talks. Speaking to the A1 television station on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said the incumbent government must introduce a broad usage of the Albanian language and change the Constitution. Changes to the Constitution and the decentralisation of power to local self-government leads to the federalisation of Macedonia, he said. Asked if as prime minister he felt responsible for the current armed conflicts, Georgievski said many elements indicated that "what is happening now was not planned two years ago but is a long-term strategy which, given the world's sympathy towards Kosovo, concluded that now was the right moment to stage an armed Albanian uprising against Macedonia." There is a well-organised political, military and logistic structure which enjoys the support of Macedonian Albanians, which is why new fronts are breaking out all the time, the Macedonian prime minister said. (hina) ha