26/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - German Christian-Democrat Doris Pack, head of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with South-East Europe, welcomed the appointment of Francois Leotard as EU Special Envoy for Macedonia (see yesterday's EUROPE, p. 4). Recalling that the former French Defence Minister had, as French deputy, been a member of a group of observers for events in Srebrenica, Ms. Pack commented: "Javier Solana cannot, in the long run, be responsible for a durable settlement to all serious crises like those of the Middle East, North Korea and the Balkans.