ALBANIA-MACEDONIA: FOREIGN MINISTERS TO DISCUSS MACEDONIAN CRISIS








BELGRADE, MARCH 10, 2001. /from RIA Novosti's Rajko Doskovic/ -- Paskal Milo, Albania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Srdjan Kerim, his Macedonian counterpart, are meeting tonight in Piskope, 250 kilometres north of Tirana. They will discuss "what Albania can do to bring down tensions on the Macedonia-Kosovo frontier and settle the north Macedonian crisis peacefully", says Sokol Jok, spokesman for the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


	The conference was appointed after Albania's parliament issued a declaration which criticised Macedonian, Yugoslav, Bulgarian and Greek stances on current clashes between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian extremists.


	The last few days turned developments in Macedonia's northwest drastically to the worse with repeated attacks of ethnic Albanian terrorists at the Macedonian army and police. Three Macedonian soldiers and a policeman were killed.