Fighting Breaks Out In Macedonia
Waiters are taking on drunken NATO troops, and Macedonian and Albanian youth are having it out on the streets. The question is whether anyone will try to exploit these incidents for political advantage.
Waiters are taking on drunken NATO troops, and Macedonian and Albanian youth are having it out on the streets. The question is whether anyone will try to exploit these incidents for political advantage.
As the Paris talks ended, both delegations did what had been expected of them. The question then turned to what, after weeks of threats, the West would do.
Belgrade's attack on the media in Serbia has been successful. No opposition views are possible, and Serbia now speaks with one voice, that of Slobodan Milosevic.
The start of the second round of talks in Paris was marked by a sudden escalation in violence in Kosovo, with bombs in two busy Kosovo towns and a major influx of Serbian forces.
Not for the first time is the West humiliated at the court of Slobodan Milosevic.
For the people of the Republika Srpska, the international dismissal of Nikola Poplasen and the Brcko decision smacks of more than just bad timing.
The prospect of a sudden agreement is all but unimaginable and Kosovo Albanians are trying to adjust psychologically and practically to a radical shift from war to peace.