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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7968

19 May 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/fyrom
Macedonia, backed by the EU, refuses dialogue with the UCK but is in advanced dialogue with the elected ethnic Albanians

Brussels, 18/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - "No State discusses with terrorists", declared Macedonia's new Foreign Minister, Ilinka Mitreva, in Brussels on Friday, ruling out any talks with the Albanian guerrillas of the UCK, but stressing that the new government, "formed to tackle the difficult problems that affect Macedonia (…), will continue the very intensive political dialogue (…) with the democratically elected representatives of the Albanian community". Javier Solana, who she had just...

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