NEGOTIATIONS IN MACEDONIA ON HOLD

SKOPJE, July 21 (Hina) - After negotiations on political dialogue last week, negotiators in Macedonia are resting this weekend, however, there are still conflicts and incidents. After Friday's meeting of legal experts of political parties with and foreign experts and western diplomats Francois Leotard and James Pardew, who also marked the continuation of the negotiations, dialogue will continue on Monday, Macedonia's Radio reported on Saturday. Even though the Albanian block will join the negotiations it is feared that it will not be easy to calm the situation with political dialogue, considering that Albanians will insist on their demands that the Albanian be second official language in the country. Albanian extremists continued with armed provocation, Macedonian Army spokesman Blagoja Markovski said. The situation is particularly intense in the Tetovo region, where Albanian forces are taking new positions. According to the spokesmanm Albanians are intimidating the Macedonian population and threatening the Albanian population, extorting great amounts of money. Late Friday afternoon, the bodies of killed European Union observers were brought from Mount Sar. The operation was conducted by members of the KFOR international peace keepers and the Macedonian Army. (hina) it