Macedonia: Country Background and Recent Conflict

By Kim, Julie

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Title:	Macedonia: Country Background and Recent Conflict
Author:	Kim, Julie
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Kim, B. J. (n.d.). Macedonia: Country Background and Recent Conflict. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Introduction: For nearly a decade, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia managed to escape the kind of brutal ethnic conflict in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo that accompanied the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The international community gave high priority to preventing the spread of ethnic conflict to Macedonia, since it was feared that war in Macedonia could quickly involve some or all of Macedonia’s neighboring countries and lead to a broader Balkan war. Macedonia was held up as a model, albeit an imperfect one, of inter-ethnic coexistence and democratic rule, with active participation of the Albanian community in political institutions, despite persistent discord in inter-ethnic relations. The swift emergence in early 2001 of a militant ethnic Albanian guerrilla movement in western Macedonia therefore caught many observers by surprise.

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Political Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Macedonian-Albanian Ethnic Tensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Recent Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 All-Party Coalition and Peace Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Peace Agreement - Status of Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Operation Essential Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Extended Military and Civilian Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Other International Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 KFOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 United Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 European Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 U.S. Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17