Britain pledges support in Macedonian borders crisis

Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has pledged Britain’s ‘‘full support’’ for the government of Macedonia in its struggle with ethnic Albanian separatists who have begun an armed insurrection in the north of the country.

Insisting that extremism should not be allowed to succeed in Macedonia, Mr Cook said there was ‘‘no prospect’’ of the redrawing of borders in the Balkans to create the greater Albania the rebels want.