ALBANIAN PARLIAMENT DENOUNCES SKOPJE, BELGRADE AND NATO STANCES ON MACEDONIAN CONFLICT








BELGRADE, MARCH 10, 2001. /from RIA Novosti's Rajko Doskovic/ -- Albania's parliament issued a declaration yesterday to come down on the official stances taken by Skopje, Belgrade and NATO on Macedonian army clashes with ethnic Albanian extremists.


	Macedonian domestic problems do not concern Kosovo, and Albania will not put up with Skopje locking the frontier, even for a time, says the declaration. It describes as "irrational" Macedonian and NATO demands to establish a buffer zone between Macedonia and Yugoslavia's Kosovo. The arrangement will sever contacts between ethnic Albanian communities to either side of the frontier, warns the document.


	Albania demands from Skopje "not to whip up a general crisis out of particular incidents" as a full-fledged crisis may provoke ethnic Albanians deported en masse from Macedonia.


	The Albanian parliament objects to a NATO resolution to introduce Yugoslav troops to a safety belt along the Yugoslav-Macedonian frontier.


	The declaration levels oblique criticisms at Bulgarian and Greek authorities for approving armed support of Macedonia.