1. AMNISTIA PER I TERRORISTI ALBANESI
2. LA MACEDONIA TEMPOREGGIA SULLE RIFORME-CAPESTRO
3. DOCUMENTI RECENTI SULLA MACEDONIA SUL SITO DELLA
TRANSNATIONAL PEACE FOUNDATION
__________________________________________________
1. AMNISTIA PER I TERRORISTI ALBANESI
Amnestie f�r albanische Terroristen
SKOPJE, 10. Oktober 2001. Die mazedonische Regierung
hat unter dem Druck der "internationalen
Staatengemeinschaft" am Dienstag ohne Beteiligung des
Parlaments eine Amnestie f�r die ethnisch albanische
Terroristen verk�ndet. Diese werde mit der amtlichen
Ver�ffentlichung in Kraft treten, hie� es aus
Regierungskreisen in Skopje.
Die Regelung zur Straffreiheit der albanischen
Terroristen ist ein Eckpunkt des Friedensplans. Sie
gilt als eine Hauptvoraussetzung f�r die R�ckkehr der
Sicherheitskr�fte in bisher von albanischen
Terroristen kontrollierte Gebiete. Von der Amnestie
ausgenommen sind Kriegsverbrechen, die unter die
Zust�ndigkeit des UNO-Kriegsverbrechertribunals in
Den Haag fallen. Das Kabinett von Ministerpr�sident
Ljubco Georgievski erkl�rte, die
Regierungsentscheidung stelle sicher, dass albanische
Terroristen, die sich bei der NATO entwaffnet h�tten,
nicht von der Polizei vor Gericht gebracht werden.
Ausgenommen sind nach offiziellen Angaben die
Verantwortlichen f�r Massaker, die in den Ortschaften
Vejce, Ljuboten, Celopek, Karpalak and Matejce ver�bt
worden seien.
INET NEWS / AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER 10.10.2001
http://www.amselfeld.com
__________________________________________________
2. LA MACEDONIA TEMPOREGGIA SULLE RIFORME-CAPESTRO
MACEDONIA: CONSTITUTIONAL U-TURN
Ethnic Macedonians renege on promises to change the
country's constitution.
By Vladimir Jovanovski in Skopje.
Europe's top envoys left Skopje in a rage last week,
accusing the government of reneging on a cast-iron
pledge to alter the constitution within three days of
the completion of the internationally supervised
disarmament of the rebel Albanian National Liberation
Army.
They cancelled a donors conference planned for this
month, which set to inject millions of US dollars
into the bankrupt state as a reward for implementing
a package of EU-mediated constitutional changes
agreed at the southern resort town of Ohrid on August
13.
The Ohrid agreement was aimed at terminating a
four-month armed rebellion by ethnic Albanians in the
west of the republic this spring, which almost
plunged Macedonia into a full scale civil war.
"It is absolutely inconceivable that the donors'
conference can take place on 15 October," the
European Union Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,
Chris Patten, said, on leaving Skopje. " In these
circumstances, I could not possibly get donors to
write large cheques in order to support a political
agreement that still hasn't been endorsed and
implemented."
"Solana and Patten left Skopje insulted and
disappointed", the Macedonian media reported after
the departure of the two senior European guests. The
EU High Representative for Common Foreign and
Security Policy, Javier Solana, was reportedly so
dismayed that he cancelled a press conference,
planned to take place after his discussions with
Macedonian officials, without explanation.
"The absence of Mr Solana at the press conference
revealed the level of his anger," a representative of
Solana`s staff in Brussels told the Macedonian
newspaper Dnevnik.
General Gunar Lange, commander of the NATO-controlled
disarmament operation, called Operation Essential
Harvest, announced the completion of the mission on
September 26 and said all the weapons the NLA offered
to surrender had been collected. In total, the ethnic
Albanians handed in 3,200 automatic rifles, 483
machine-guns, 161 mortars, 17 air defence systems and
4 armoured vehicles.
On September 27, the NLA leader, Ali Ahmeti, duly
announced that his guerrilla organisation was
disbanding. Speaking at a press conference in the NLA
stronghold of Sipkovica, he added that regular
Macedonian police would be permitted to enter
villages under former NLA control if the police units
included ethnic Albanians. His words were confirmed
by the NLA military commander, G`zim Ostreni. "The
NLA does not exist any more," he told a Skopje TV
station.
However, while the Albanian militants and the
international community have fulfilled their side of
the bargain, the Macedonian parliament has not.
Instead, the speaker of parliament, Stojan Andov, a
key opponent of the August 13 peace deal, has
presented a series of excuses to obstruct the reform
of the constitution.
At first, he blamed the delay on the existence of
guerrilla road blockades. Then he cited problems
created by anti-agreement riots in front of the
parliament building. After that he issued a demand
for all civilians kidnapped by the NLA to be released
as a pre-condition.
Andov's latest manoeuvre is a proposal for the
constitutional amendments to be debated and enacted
in sections, instead of as a package, which is what
the ethnic Albanian parties demanded. The speaker
said only six of the 15 amendments agreed in Ohrid
would be submitted to parliament at a session on
October 9.
The ethnic Albanian parties denounced this move as a
betrayal and now threaten to boycott parliament. The
vice-president of parliament, Iljaz Halimi, a senior
official in the Democratic Party of Albanians, the
largest ethnic Albanian party, told a Skopje
television station on October 7 his party would never
agree to the change. "If the president [of
parliament] does not submit all 15 amendments, we are
not going to take part in the work of parliament," he
said.
The second largest Albanian Party, the Party of
Democratic Prosperity, said it would join the
threatened boycott. "All the amendments must be
immediately submitted and adopted without any
changes," said Abduljhadi Vejseli, a deputy in
parliament.
The biggest stumbling block is a proposed change to
the constitutional preamble. At Ohrid, the parties
agreed to replace a phrase which says sovereignty
rests with "the Macedonian people" with new wording
that makes it clear sovereignty rests with all
citizens on Macedonian territory.
The distinction is small but significant. The ethnic
Albanians consider the current formula discriminates
against them, in that it appears to give ethnic
Macedonians an exclusive title to sovereignty. As a
result, they boycotted the passage of the
constitution, when Macedonia became independent in
1991.
Ethnic Macedonians feels just as strongly. Fearful of
demographic changes that may eventually bring about
an ethnic Albanian majority in the country, they are
determined to enshrine their claim to statehood in
the constitution.
The change in wording has aroused enormous opposition
from deputies in parliament, elder statesmen, such as
the former president Kiro Gligorov, a host of
cultural institutions, including the Macedonian
Academy of Arts and Sciences, MANU, and scientific
bodies.
All of them insist that the elimination of the term
"Macedonian people" from the preamble would mark a
dangerous step towards what some call the
"disintegration of the state".
The preamble of the constitution has become the focus
of debate to such an extent that if the phrase
"Macedonian people" was left alone, the other 14
amendments would probably be adopted without further
ado.
Dosta Dimovska, vice president of the ruling
nationalist Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organisation, VMRO-DPMNE, told state radio that her
party colleagues would have great difficulties
accepting the amendments if the phrase "Macedonian
people" vanished from the constitution. "If we can
just find a common language the [other]
constitutional changes will happen sooner," she said.
There is some support for a re-think at the European
level. According to Doris Pack, head of a European
parliament delegation on southeast Europe, which
visited Skopje on October 6, the EU was not against
relatively minor changes to the Ohrid agreement.
"If all the other parts of the Framework Agreement
are accepted apart from the preamble we as [European]
MPs are ready to initiate a new discussion in the
European parliament on a compromise," Pack said,
"having in mind the historic aspiration of the
Macedonian people to have a state and a future of
their own."
But the Europeans will only nod through changes to
the deal if the ethnic Albanians can be brought round
as well. So far there is no sign of that. On the
contrary, attempts by the Macedonians to reopen the
issue seem certain to evoke strong opposition from
ethnic Albanian parties.
The author is a journalist at the Skopje-based Forum
Magazine.
Copyright (C) 2001 The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 287,October 10, 2001
IWPR ON-LINE: http://www.iwpr.net
Balkan Crisis Report is supported by the Department
for International Development, European Commission,
Swedish International Development and Cooperation
Agency, The Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
and other sources. IWPR also acknowledges general
support from the Ford Foundation.
__________________________________________________
3. DOCUMENTI RECENTI SULLA MACEDONIA SUL SITO DELLA
TRANSNATIONAL PEACE FOUNDATION
RECENT DOCUMENTS ABOUT MACEDONIA ON TFF SITE:
> http://www.transnational.org/sitemap.html
Vasko Karangeleski, TFF Peace Antenna, September 17, 2001
*** Macedonia - Actions that escalated the conflict
Scott Taylor, Esprit de Corps, Canada, Sept 17
*** Macedonian Backgrounder - and the Americans in
Aracinovo
Jan �berg, TFF direkt�r, 17 september, 2001
*** NATOs talfusk i Makedonien
Michel Chossudovsky, TFF Associate, September 13, 2001
*** The military occupation of Macedonia
Kjell Magnusson, Uppsala Universitet, September 12, 2001
*** Makedonien: S� kn�cktes ett f�red�me
TFF PressInfo # 126 September 7, 2001
*** What will happen in Macedonia?
By Jan Oberg, TFF director
(NATO WILL NOT LEAVE MACEDONIA; A MASSACRE? THE
GOVERNMENT SIDE CASTIGATED?; SIMPLE MISSION CREEP AND
NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OHRID AGREEMENT; FROM NLA
TO ANA, THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY; FIGHTING SPREADS
TO WESTERN MACEDONIA; AN EU MILITARY PRESENCE? A
COMPREHENSIVE UN PRESENCE - RELEVANT BUT UNLIKELY)
Jonathan Power, TFF associate, Sept 4, 2001
*** Human rights crises: we need early action
TFF PressInfo # 125 August 29, 2001
*** NATO's number nonsense
Read the whole analysis here
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2001/
pf125_NATOnumbers.html
TFF PressInfo # 124 August 28, 2001
*** If Western press covered this from Macedonia...
This document's URL is:
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2001/
pf124_WestPressMac.html
Biljana Vankovska, TFF associate, 21 augusti 2001
*** The Macedonian Agreement - Restoring EU and NATO
credibility rather than making peace
H�kan Wiberg, TFF board member, 21 augusti 2001
*** Macedonia - High risk that the war will continue.
An outsider's perspective
TNN - The Transnational News Navigator -
alternative and mainstream sources in one:
http://www.transnational.org/new/TNN.html
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2. LA MACEDONIA TEMPOREGGIA SULLE RIFORME-CAPESTRO
3. DOCUMENTI RECENTI SULLA MACEDONIA SUL SITO DELLA
TRANSNATIONAL PEACE FOUNDATION
__________________________________________________
1. AMNISTIA PER I TERRORISTI ALBANESI
Amnestie f�r albanische Terroristen
SKOPJE, 10. Oktober 2001. Die mazedonische Regierung
hat unter dem Druck der "internationalen
Staatengemeinschaft" am Dienstag ohne Beteiligung des
Parlaments eine Amnestie f�r die ethnisch albanische
Terroristen verk�ndet. Diese werde mit der amtlichen
Ver�ffentlichung in Kraft treten, hie� es aus
Regierungskreisen in Skopje.
Die Regelung zur Straffreiheit der albanischen
Terroristen ist ein Eckpunkt des Friedensplans. Sie
gilt als eine Hauptvoraussetzung f�r die R�ckkehr der
Sicherheitskr�fte in bisher von albanischen
Terroristen kontrollierte Gebiete. Von der Amnestie
ausgenommen sind Kriegsverbrechen, die unter die
Zust�ndigkeit des UNO-Kriegsverbrechertribunals in
Den Haag fallen. Das Kabinett von Ministerpr�sident
Ljubco Georgievski erkl�rte, die
Regierungsentscheidung stelle sicher, dass albanische
Terroristen, die sich bei der NATO entwaffnet h�tten,
nicht von der Polizei vor Gericht gebracht werden.
Ausgenommen sind nach offiziellen Angaben die
Verantwortlichen f�r Massaker, die in den Ortschaften
Vejce, Ljuboten, Celopek, Karpalak and Matejce ver�bt
worden seien.
INET NEWS / AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER 10.10.2001
http://www.amselfeld.com
__________________________________________________
2. LA MACEDONIA TEMPOREGGIA SULLE RIFORME-CAPESTRO
MACEDONIA: CONSTITUTIONAL U-TURN
Ethnic Macedonians renege on promises to change the
country's constitution.
By Vladimir Jovanovski in Skopje.
Europe's top envoys left Skopje in a rage last week,
accusing the government of reneging on a cast-iron
pledge to alter the constitution within three days of
the completion of the internationally supervised
disarmament of the rebel Albanian National Liberation
Army.
They cancelled a donors conference planned for this
month, which set to inject millions of US dollars
into the bankrupt state as a reward for implementing
a package of EU-mediated constitutional changes
agreed at the southern resort town of Ohrid on August
13.
The Ohrid agreement was aimed at terminating a
four-month armed rebellion by ethnic Albanians in the
west of the republic this spring, which almost
plunged Macedonia into a full scale civil war.
"It is absolutely inconceivable that the donors'
conference can take place on 15 October," the
European Union Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,
Chris Patten, said, on leaving Skopje. " In these
circumstances, I could not possibly get donors to
write large cheques in order to support a political
agreement that still hasn't been endorsed and
implemented."
"Solana and Patten left Skopje insulted and
disappointed", the Macedonian media reported after
the departure of the two senior European guests. The
EU High Representative for Common Foreign and
Security Policy, Javier Solana, was reportedly so
dismayed that he cancelled a press conference,
planned to take place after his discussions with
Macedonian officials, without explanation.
"The absence of Mr Solana at the press conference
revealed the level of his anger," a representative of
Solana`s staff in Brussels told the Macedonian
newspaper Dnevnik.
General Gunar Lange, commander of the NATO-controlled
disarmament operation, called Operation Essential
Harvest, announced the completion of the mission on
September 26 and said all the weapons the NLA offered
to surrender had been collected. In total, the ethnic
Albanians handed in 3,200 automatic rifles, 483
machine-guns, 161 mortars, 17 air defence systems and
4 armoured vehicles.
On September 27, the NLA leader, Ali Ahmeti, duly
announced that his guerrilla organisation was
disbanding. Speaking at a press conference in the NLA
stronghold of Sipkovica, he added that regular
Macedonian police would be permitted to enter
villages under former NLA control if the police units
included ethnic Albanians. His words were confirmed
by the NLA military commander, G`zim Ostreni. "The
NLA does not exist any more," he told a Skopje TV
station.
However, while the Albanian militants and the
international community have fulfilled their side of
the bargain, the Macedonian parliament has not.
Instead, the speaker of parliament, Stojan Andov, a
key opponent of the August 13 peace deal, has
presented a series of excuses to obstruct the reform
of the constitution.
At first, he blamed the delay on the existence of
guerrilla road blockades. Then he cited problems
created by anti-agreement riots in front of the
parliament building. After that he issued a demand
for all civilians kidnapped by the NLA to be released
as a pre-condition.
Andov's latest manoeuvre is a proposal for the
constitutional amendments to be debated and enacted
in sections, instead of as a package, which is what
the ethnic Albanian parties demanded. The speaker
said only six of the 15 amendments agreed in Ohrid
would be submitted to parliament at a session on
October 9.
The ethnic Albanian parties denounced this move as a
betrayal and now threaten to boycott parliament. The
vice-president of parliament, Iljaz Halimi, a senior
official in the Democratic Party of Albanians, the
largest ethnic Albanian party, told a Skopje
television station on October 7 his party would never
agree to the change. "If the president [of
parliament] does not submit all 15 amendments, we are
not going to take part in the work of parliament," he
said.
The second largest Albanian Party, the Party of
Democratic Prosperity, said it would join the
threatened boycott. "All the amendments must be
immediately submitted and adopted without any
changes," said Abduljhadi Vejseli, a deputy in
parliament.
The biggest stumbling block is a proposed change to
the constitutional preamble. At Ohrid, the parties
agreed to replace a phrase which says sovereignty
rests with "the Macedonian people" with new wording
that makes it clear sovereignty rests with all
citizens on Macedonian territory.
The distinction is small but significant. The ethnic
Albanians consider the current formula discriminates
against them, in that it appears to give ethnic
Macedonians an exclusive title to sovereignty. As a
result, they boycotted the passage of the
constitution, when Macedonia became independent in
1991.
Ethnic Macedonians feels just as strongly. Fearful of
demographic changes that may eventually bring about
an ethnic Albanian majority in the country, they are
determined to enshrine their claim to statehood in
the constitution.
The change in wording has aroused enormous opposition
from deputies in parliament, elder statesmen, such as
the former president Kiro Gligorov, a host of
cultural institutions, including the Macedonian
Academy of Arts and Sciences, MANU, and scientific
bodies.
All of them insist that the elimination of the term
"Macedonian people" from the preamble would mark a
dangerous step towards what some call the
"disintegration of the state".
The preamble of the constitution has become the focus
of debate to such an extent that if the phrase
"Macedonian people" was left alone, the other 14
amendments would probably be adopted without further
ado.
Dosta Dimovska, vice president of the ruling
nationalist Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organisation, VMRO-DPMNE, told state radio that her
party colleagues would have great difficulties
accepting the amendments if the phrase "Macedonian
people" vanished from the constitution. "If we can
just find a common language the [other]
constitutional changes will happen sooner," she said.
There is some support for a re-think at the European
level. According to Doris Pack, head of a European
parliament delegation on southeast Europe, which
visited Skopje on October 6, the EU was not against
relatively minor changes to the Ohrid agreement.
"If all the other parts of the Framework Agreement
are accepted apart from the preamble we as [European]
MPs are ready to initiate a new discussion in the
European parliament on a compromise," Pack said,
"having in mind the historic aspiration of the
Macedonian people to have a state and a future of
their own."
But the Europeans will only nod through changes to
the deal if the ethnic Albanians can be brought round
as well. So far there is no sign of that. On the
contrary, attempts by the Macedonians to reopen the
issue seem certain to evoke strong opposition from
ethnic Albanian parties.
The author is a journalist at the Skopje-based Forum
Magazine.
Copyright (C) 2001 The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 287,October 10, 2001
IWPR ON-LINE: http://www.iwpr.net
Balkan Crisis Report is supported by the Department
for International Development, European Commission,
Swedish International Development and Cooperation
Agency, The Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
and other sources. IWPR also acknowledges general
support from the Ford Foundation.
__________________________________________________
3. DOCUMENTI RECENTI SULLA MACEDONIA SUL SITO DELLA
TRANSNATIONAL PEACE FOUNDATION
RECENT DOCUMENTS ABOUT MACEDONIA ON TFF SITE:
> http://www.transnational.org/sitemap.html
Vasko Karangeleski, TFF Peace Antenna, September 17, 2001
*** Macedonia - Actions that escalated the conflict
Scott Taylor, Esprit de Corps, Canada, Sept 17
*** Macedonian Backgrounder - and the Americans in
Aracinovo
Jan �berg, TFF direkt�r, 17 september, 2001
*** NATOs talfusk i Makedonien
Michel Chossudovsky, TFF Associate, September 13, 2001
*** The military occupation of Macedonia
Kjell Magnusson, Uppsala Universitet, September 12, 2001
*** Makedonien: S� kn�cktes ett f�red�me
TFF PressInfo # 126 September 7, 2001
*** What will happen in Macedonia?
By Jan Oberg, TFF director
(NATO WILL NOT LEAVE MACEDONIA; A MASSACRE? THE
GOVERNMENT SIDE CASTIGATED?; SIMPLE MISSION CREEP AND
NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OHRID AGREEMENT; FROM NLA
TO ANA, THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY; FIGHTING SPREADS
TO WESTERN MACEDONIA; AN EU MILITARY PRESENCE? A
COMPREHENSIVE UN PRESENCE - RELEVANT BUT UNLIKELY)
Jonathan Power, TFF associate, Sept 4, 2001
*** Human rights crises: we need early action
TFF PressInfo # 125 August 29, 2001
*** NATO's number nonsense
Read the whole analysis here
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2001/
pf125_NATOnumbers.html
TFF PressInfo # 124 August 28, 2001
*** If Western press covered this from Macedonia...
This document's URL is:
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2001/
pf124_WestPressMac.html
Biljana Vankovska, TFF associate, 21 augusti 2001
*** The Macedonian Agreement - Restoring EU and NATO
credibility rather than making peace
H�kan Wiberg, TFF board member, 21 augusti 2001
*** Macedonia - High risk that the war will continue.
An outsider's perspective
TNN - The Transnational News Navigator -
alternative and mainstream sources in one:
http://www.transnational.org/new/TNN.html
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