Macedonian insurgents 'disbanding'
Rebels in Macedonia say they are beginning to disband ahead of a NATO mission to collect and destroy their weapons.
Their leader, known as Adashi, who commands rebel groups in and around the capital, Skopje, says he is committed to dismantling his forces.
He said the disbanding had already begun and rebel leaders were planning to begin preparations to hand over their weapons to British-led NATO troops.
Adashi said: "We are going to show the world that we are for peace. The 114th Brigade isn't going to have any more soldiers.
"When all is finished, we want our fighters to have an everyday normal life like other citizens."
On Friday, the NATO commander in Skopje, General Gunnar Lange, said both rebel and Government forces would begin pulling back from areas where NATO will set up weapons collection sites to give alliance troops some "breathing space".
Many Macedonians, however, fear that the insurgents' newer and more sophisticated weapons will be hidden in the hills or smuggled over the border to Albania and Kosovo and stashed away there in case they are needed again.
NATO repeatedly has said that its forces will not search for or confiscate any weapons, collecting only those to be handed in voluntarily.
NATO officials said Friday that they and the rebels had arrived at a mutually acceptable figure of weapons to be surrendered.
