NEW YORK, April 8 (Hina) - Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said that recent operations of Albanian extremists in Macedonia and Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina were an answer to the passiveness of
the new United States administration in the Balkans, read Sunday's issues of the New York Times. We cannot try to buy time by examining a policy and composing a crew, Holbrooke said. A conception that the United States has no interest in the Balkans inspires extremists to try to cancel all achievements made over the past five years. The fifth Balkan war already started in Macedonia and Washington is faced with challenges in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo, Holbrooke said. According to him, Bosnian Croats violated the Dayton agreement by their moves and the United States should firmly respond. The greatest challenge is in Macedonia, Holbrooke said. In his opinion,
NEW YORK, April 8 (Hina) - Former United States Ambassador to the
United Nations Richard Holbrooke said that recent operations of
Albanian extremists in Macedonia and Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina
were an answer to the passiveness of the new United States
administration in the Balkans, read Sunday's issues of the New York
Times.
We cannot try to buy time by examining a policy and composing a crew,
Holbrooke said.
A conception that the United States has no interest in the Balkans
inspires extremists to try to cancel all achievements made over the
past five years. The fifth Balkan war already started in Macedonia
and Washington is faced with challenges in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Montenegro and Kosovo, Holbrooke said.
According to him, Bosnian Croats violated the Dayton agreement by
their moves and the United States should firmly respond.
The greatest challenge is in Macedonia, Holbrooke said. In his
opinion, there are only several weeks left before a civil war
between Macedonians and Albanians breaks out.
In order to prevent this, Washington must have its high envoy in the
region, Holbrooke suggested.
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