SKOPLJE, June 28 (Hina) - Shooting can still be heard in the areas of Kumanovo and Tetovo and the village of Aracinovo is under the control of Macedonian police forces, Macedonian army spokesman Blagoja Markovski said. Macedonian
positions in the village of Umin Dol in the Kumanovo area were the main target of Albanian attacks which lasted throughout the night last night. Defence Ministry spokesman Gorgi Trendafilov said helicopters were flying over the Mt Sar area as part of several tactical operations following last night's sporadic attacks by Albanian terrorists from villages on Mt Sar. Albanian terrorists were seen opening sporadic fire on the Vardar River valley from Mt Zeden south-west of the border crossing of Blace, where German Kosovo Force (KFOR) logistics troops are stationed. Armed groups wearing black uniforms were spotted in Tearce, a village in the Tetovo area, and they are terrorising t
SKOPLJE, June 28 (Hina) - Shooting can still be heard in the areas of
Kumanovo and Tetovo and the village of Aracinovo is under the
control of Macedonian police forces, Macedonian army spokesman
Blagoja Markovski said.
Macedonian positions in the village of Umin Dol in the Kumanovo area
were the main target of Albanian attacks which lasted throughout
the night last night.
Defence Ministry spokesman Gorgi Trendafilov said helicopters were
flying over the Mt Sar area as part of several tactical operations
following last night's sporadic attacks by Albanian terrorists
from villages on Mt Sar.
Albanian terrorists were seen opening sporadic fire on the Vardar
River valley from Mt Zeden south-west of the border crossing of
Blace, where German Kosovo Force (KFOR) logistics troops are
stationed. Armed groups wearing black uniforms were spotted in
Tearce, a village in the Tetovo area, and they are terrorising the
villagers in an attempt to expel them, Trendafilov claims.
The paper Dnevnik reports that Albanian extremists have been seen
in the villages south and south-west of Skoplje all the way to Mt
Zeden as well as in several villages near Kicevo, Debar and Struga.
Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski said last night that Aracinovo
was controlled by Macedonian forces, which yesterday searched the
village for the first time. Demining activities resumed today with
detonations which could be heard in Skoplje. Macedonian forces have
discovered several types of weapons in the village, from 120-mm
mortars to rifles and ammunition from World War II. They also found
a makeshift medical facility.
European Union's permanent representative Francois Leotard and
French constitutional law expert Robert Badinter should hold
unofficial consultations with participants in Macedonia's
political dialogue, including Macedonian experts who worked on the
country's constitution, at Macedonian President Boris
Trajkovski's office. Leotard made no statements upon his arrival in
Skoplje.
Badinter told the private TV station A1 last night that modern
democracies preferred constitutions which protected the rights of
all citizens. A constitution based on the principle of consensus
does not offer an efficient democracy because it favours only one
minority, however not in the ethnic but political sense, and it
leads to a state of two nations whereas Macedonia has more than one
minority, he said. This model is unacceptable also because it is
part of the past and it failed in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he said.
Macedonia has to turn to the future and promote minority rights in
local self-government in education and culture, Badinter said.
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