NATO troops arrive for Macedonian fact-finding mission
Britain’s Royal Air Force has made its first operation flight to Macedonia as part of a NATO weapons collection mission.
Hundreds of British and other troops have arrived in the capital of Skopje where they are establishing a headquarters.
The troops are to begin a fact-finding mission to determine whether it is safe to send in the main contingent of 3,500 troops to collect weapons from Albanian rebels.
Two giant aircraft carrying Land rovers, generators, helicopters and personnel left an Oxford airbase for the troubled region earlier today.
NATO hopes its ‘Operation Essential Harvest’ will lead to a lasting ceasefire in Macedonia.
