The Macedonian vice-president, Ms Radmila KiprijanovoRado vanovik, will give a press conference this afternoon at which it is expected "the NATO question" will dominate.
There are 11,800 NATO troops stationed in the country at the moment, by far the largest number in any of Serbia's non-NATO neighbours. "They are our brothers," said Ms Suzanna Monevska, speaking about the Serbs. "We lived in the same country [the former Yugoslavia] for a long time. It was a peaceful time, full of progress."
Suzanna is a meteorologist in Skopje, the Macedonian capital. A petite young woman, she was speaking outside the city's principal Orthodox church, St Kliment Ohridski on Sunday as noisy Easter celebrations were under way. Children in traditional costume danced on a stage erected at the bell tower.
Suzanna was quivering with rage and nerves at talking to a member of the Western media. Like many Macedonians, she has a low view of the Western media after the last three weeks.
"We can get them all here. CNN, BBC, Serbian television," she said in good English. "CNN is the leader of propaganda. It shows the situation to justify NATO actions."
"Tell the truth about the Balkans," her mother-in-law, Nadeska, advised. She is a retired professor of literature and was at St Kliment's with the Union of Women's Organisations of the Republic of Macedonia. What is happening is awful, said Nadeska. "NATO must stop the bombing immediately. We are very angry about that," she said.
She also believed the number of refugees who had arrived in Macedonia would be a major problem for the country economically and said that the EU and US must help. "I also believe the refugees are not happy here."
Suzanna felt that the internal affairs of a country should be settled within that country, without outside interference. Slobodan Milosevic is the elected leader of the Serbian people, she said. She had no problem with him or his people. And Kosovo had traditionally been Serb. "It is very connected with Serb history, very much central to its existence."
As regards the presence of NATO forces in Macedonia, she felt as a citizen of the country she should support her government's decision to have them there. As a private citizen, however, she thought the NATO presence "really questionable. NATO is not humanitarian. Just a military power," she said. She thought that Macedonian membership of NATO (for which the country has applied) should be ruled out. "We could end up fighting brother nations," she said.
She remains anxious, however, that Macedonia join the EU.
Like her mother-in-law, Suzanna also believes the international community "must help" Macedonia cope with the refugee crisis.
The two women were giving articulate expression to what appears a consensus view among Macedonians on the Kosovo crisis, certainly among all Macedonians I spoke to. Samuil, for example, is a security guard in a hotel where NATO officers are staying near Skopje.
He is pessimistic. He too wants the NATO bombing stopped but also believes Macedonia will be bombed by Albanian guerrillas in what he expects will be a war by Albanian separatists. At the same time, he insists he is not anti-Albanian. "I was young under Tito. Everyone was tolerant of many nationalities and ethnic groups then," he said.
Igor Sokolovski, a Skopje taximan, has reservations about Albanians. "They are not like us . . . they have too many children . . . they are Muslim," were among his sentiments. Igor is 26, and prefers Serbs. They're like the Macedonians. And the Irish. "Great dignity," he said, referring proudly to that great sin of small nations, pride. A "dignity" which doesn't stretch, it seems. To Albanians at least.
The Albanians are the largest of Macedonia's 26 minorities. The country's 1,889,725 population is 66 per cent Macedonian, 22 per cent Albanian, with the rest made up of Turks, Romanians, Serbs, and Vlachs. Of that population 300,000, or 45 per cent of the labour force, is unemployed.