EU chief seeks to end Macedonian conflict

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.

’’You have to achieve a solution to these problems not by weapons, but by negotiations, by participation in the political process. This is what Europe is all about,’’ Javier Solana said after meeting ethnic Albanian leader Arben Xhaferi.