TELEPHONE CALL OF THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA WITH THE PRESIDENT OF
MACEDONIA








MOSCOW, 5 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" Korr. /.  On 4 March in the evening
a telephone call of the president of Russia Vladimir Putin with the
president of Macedonia Boris Trajkovski had taken place.

Like Alexej Gromow, press speaker of the Russian president, indicated,
the president of Macedonia this discussion had started up.

Boris Trajkovski expressed its deep concern around the development to
the situation at the boundary with the Kosovo.  Lately Albanian
extremists in this space noticeably more actively, their actions after
its estimate toward the Entstabilisierung of the situation in
Macedonia are directed.  Trajkovski expressed itself for additional
efforts of the world community around the prevention of the voltage
escalation in the Balkans.

Vladimir Putin underlined for his part that one understands the grown
activity of the Albanian extremists in the northwest of Macedonia as
well as in the Presevo valley in the south of Serbia in Russia with
the uneasiness, what brings new victims and with the breakup to the
situation threatens.

The president of Russia explained that our country will take all
necessary measures in the context of the UN and other international
organizations for the prevention of the escalation of the conflict and
for the preservation of stability on the Balkan Peninsula.