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To: Stormweaver who wrote (4707)4/20/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: goldsnow  Respond to of 17770
 
No offensive on
Yugoslavia from
Macedonia-minister
01:06 p.m Apr 20, 1999 Eastern

BONN, April 20 (Reuters) -
Macedonia's Foreign Minister
Aleksandar Dimitrov said on
Tuesday his country would not
allow foreign combat troops to be
stationed on Macedonian soil.

''The area of Macedonia cannot
be used for offensive action on
neighbouring countries, including
Yugoslavia,'' he told a news
conference in Bonn with German
Finance Minister Joschka Fischer.

Such an action would lead only to
more bloodshed and victims, he
said.

Dimitrov said Macedonia needed
international help to take in more
refugees from Kosovo.''We cannot
take any more than another
20,000 otherwise. We already
have eight times that amount,'' he
said.

Fischer said that Germany and the
European Union would continue to
supply Macedonia with financial
and humanitarian aid.

Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited