OPPOSITION parties led

Nato has reached deals with the Macedonian Government and ethnic Albanians on the deployment of thousands of alliance soldiers and the disarming of rebels after six months of bloody conflict in the impoverished Balkan country.

Gunmen ambushed Macedonia’s interior minister yesterday, spraying his car with bullets as he travelled to visit refugees returning to their homes.

The EU’s security affairs chief today reaffirmed his push for a peaceful solution to end Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian insurgency, urging the rebels to let the political process run its course.