Skopje - Macedonian legislators resumed debate on reforms crucial to peace with ethnic Albanians yesterday as Western officials hinted that NATO, now collecting guerrilla weapons, may need to consider a future security role.
A NATO spokesman in Brussels agreed that a serious security vacuum looms after the alliance winds up its 30-day gathering of rebel arms later this month. He said NATO governments were considering how to stabilise the Balkan state thereafter.
Parliament had been silenced for two days by its hardline nationalist speaker, Mr Stojan Andov, who alleged that Albanian guerrillas were intimidating civilians.
