WASHINGTON, June 20 (Hina) - The United States' Administration has not yet decided about the American participation in a NATO mission in Macedonia, said the Secretary of State, Colin Powell on Wednesday. Regarding Washington's support
to Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski's peace plan, Americans, however, are very likely to take part in that action, he added. Ahead of his brief meeting with NATO Secretary General George Robertson, Powell told reporters that military planning specialists in Brussels were now working on a concept of the operation, and a decision of the deployment of troops would be premature. NATO's Permanent Council has accepted Trajkovski's request about the Alliance troops' deployment in Macedonia so that they can help disarm ethnic Albanian guerrillas, but only after Skopje and Albanian rebels reach an agreement on the matter. Some European NATO member-states have promised to p
WASHINGTON, June 20 (Hina) - The United States' Administration has
not yet decided about the American participation in a NATO mission
in Macedonia, said the Secretary of State, Colin Powell on
Wednesday. Regarding Washington's support to Macedonian President
Boris Trajkovski's peace plan, Americans, however, are very likely
to take part in that action, he added.
Ahead of his brief meeting with NATO Secretary General George
Robertson, Powell told reporters that military planning
specialists in Brussels were now working on a concept of the
operation, and a decision of the deployment of troops would be
premature.
NATO's Permanent Council has accepted Trajkovski's request about
the Alliance troops' deployment in Macedonia so that they can help
disarm ethnic Albanian guerrillas, but only after Skopje and
Albanian rebels reach an agreement on the matter.
Some European NATO member-states have promised to participate in
the action.
A high-ranking official of the French defence ministry has said
that most of some 3,000 soldiers will be from Europe.
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