Nato resumes Macedonian weapons collection
Nato has resumed collecting weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels.
The move follows Macedonia's Parliament backing a peace plan to end the armed conflict in return for upgrading minority rights.
Nato spokesman Major Barry Johnson says the aim is to take in about 1,100 weapons in the second phase of the operation.
The peace plan is a step-by-step process where ethnic Albanian rebels voluntarily surrendering arms to Nato in phases, and that is followed by Parliament approval of new legislation to grant more rights to the ethnic Albanians.
The rebels, known as the National Liberation Army, began an insurgency in February that they said was aimed at winning more rights for the ethnic Albanians, a third of the country's two million people.
MPs finally buckled to international pressure and voted 91-19 in favour of changing the constitution to improve ethnic Albanian rights.
The British led Nato mission has already taken more than a third of the 3,300 piece rebel arsenal that is to be surrendered under the peace plan.
