SKOPJE, Sept 25 (Hina) - Upon his arrival in the Macedonian capital on Tuesday morning, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said ethnic Albanian rebels were fulfilling their part of obligations stipulated by the Ohrid framework
peace agreement, and he asked the Macedonian parliament to ratify the constitutional amendments in compliance with the peace plan. Until Wednesday, NATO troops should collect 3,300 pieces of arms from the guerrilla, and the Alliance's units on the ground have assessed this figure will be exceeded. Sceptics proved to be wrong. The weapons have been handed in... NATO has done its part of the job and now it is on Macedonian MPs to do their job, Robertson told reporter at the airport in Skopje. I have received the assurances from Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski that amnesty will be granted and now it is time parliamentarians defined the amnesty by law, he added. In Sk
SKOPJE, Sept 25 (Hina) - Upon his arrival in the Macedonian capital
on Tuesday morning, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said
ethnic Albanian rebels were fulfilling their part of obligations
stipulated by the Ohrid framework peace agreement, and he asked the
Macedonian parliament to ratify the constitutional amendments in
compliance with the peace plan.
Until Wednesday, NATO troops should collect 3,300 pieces of arms
from the guerrilla, and the Alliance's units on the ground have
assessed this figure will be exceeded.
Sceptics proved to be wrong. The weapons have been handed in... NATO
has done its part of the job and now it is on Macedonian MPs to do
their job, Robertson told reporter at the airport in Skopje.
I have received the assurances from Macedonian President Boris
Trajkovski that amnesty will be granted and now it is time
parliamentarians defined the amnesty by law, he added.
In Skopje NATO Secretary-General is to hold talks with Macedonian
officials on a NATO force that should remain on the ground after the
completion of the arms collection operation 'Essential Harvest'.
(hina) ms