Polyparty-ism - Search for Common Ground

gaining power, between the parties. What for?
Finally, why has the foreign factor emphasized
their efforts to deal with the crisis so much, when
we are just a small country with a population
close to one of an average European town?
Do we have to admit that this strategy didn't
work here? What has then left for the other far
bigger and more complex regions and countries
around the world? Or, how can be solved the
problem with Kosovo within Yugoslavia, which
for Europe and USA is far more important country
on the Balkans?
The world, simply, doesn't allow us to fight
against each other, and I think that we were
capable of destroying each other as we did in
Bosnia. According to my opinion, for the international
community Macedonia is a good test for
testing the, yet to be solved problems on the relations
Belgrade-Podgorica and Belgrade-
Prishtina. I wander what kind of Constitution
should be arranged, what kind of laws (for the
human rights, the economic relations…) should
be brought, if they want an eternal stability in
this part of the Balkans. It is no coincident that
SRJ is the main preoccupation of the EU and
Solana in person.
If our crisis has started with the bomb attack in
Tearce, it shouldn't surprised us that the attack
over Pavle Todorovski, the man that symbolizes
the returning of the peace and stability in this
country, has happened there also. The experiences
show that those types of actions are desperate
and almost always, fail to provoke another
war.
In that sense, Kosovo and Yugoslavia are the
regions of origin of the last wars on the Balkans
and probably the places where there are going to
end. A new war between the Serbs and the
Albanians might not be repeated, but everything
indicates that the foreign forces will use their
weapons to settle down the situation, and then to
impose the final solution to the problem. That will
create terms for the final rearrangement of SRJ.
Although the war doesn't ask too much (a few
"hot shots" and one or two major incidents) I
think that a war is not going to happen to
Macedonia…
…That night, after midnight, few hours after the
last arrival of George Robertson, I was awaked
by the noise of the helicopters. I thought: they
are taking the Lord for a sleep. And maybe not,
maybe it should just look like that. Actually,
where does he stay overnight when he is in
Skopje, and does he really stays where we
believe he does? Should everything be left over
to the coincidence?
(The author is an editor in
the local TV station "Telma")
Why a spring offensive
is not possible
Ohrid can
solve all the
problems
Daut Dauti
Nobody in Macedonia
has an interest of creating
a new conflict, the beginning I would like to state
Before I start elaborating, at
because there is no my thesis: I don't believe that the
dispute, no contrasting
sides, and no sup-
possible. It is more of a "testing
so-called "spring aggression" is
port by the international
factor. The in-country extremist forces and
balloon" used by all sides - by the
elections truly seem
also by the foreign factor, in order
reasonable, but to
to attain a certain motivating goal
for those that need to perform
slaughter the ox for
their duties regulated with the
only one steak, is too
Ohrid agreement signed in August
big of a price
by the four sides represented by
their political leaders. Maybe this
approach looks too idealistic and even naive and is also not
encouraged by great strategies and concealed scenarios, but
this is my opinion and I would like to believe in it.
Why?
There have to be some certain assumptions for a spring
aggression, which in this case are not yet realized. There
should be a certain clash and sides that would be involved
in it; there should be a certain political target for each of the
sides in this clash: one should fight for it and the other
against it. And what do we have fro all of these things? In
fact, there is no conflict! Yes, there is a political target, but
it doesn't involve the sides in a conflict: that is the Ohrid
agreement and it should not provoke major clashes. And
even if it does, they should not be major and would not
incite aggressions of any kind. There is a timing that should
be forced, there are still points, which are not brought into
question, that need to be developed into laws (even the
amnesty law, which would have a relaxing influence on the
conflict regions), there is a plan for the returning of the
police and the dislocated families to the conflict regions and
all of them are being implemented successively. Both the
internal and the external factors are clearly familiar with the
path that they should follow. The thing that makes this plan
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Will there be peace?, February 2002