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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8028

17 August 2001
(eu) eu/nato/macedonia
First troops taking part in Operation "Essential Harvest" may leave this week already - Patten says that 2.5 million euro are available under Rapid Reaction Mechanism

Brussels, 16/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - The first troops (400 British) taking part in NATO's surveillance and collection operation of weapons that must be handed in voluntarily by the Albanian rebels of Macedonia may enter Skopje on Friday already. This is what Yves Brodeur, NATO Council spokesman - the Council met in Brussels on 15 August to draw the conclusions of the peace agreement signed in Skopje on 13 August between Macedonians and Albanians - announced to the press, stipulating that...