Nato to send more troops to Macedonia border
Nato Secretary General Lord Robertson said today the international force in Kosovo will move more troops up to the border with Macedonia to cut off the supply lines to ethnic Albanian rebels who have attacked government forces.
At a meeting with Macedonian Foreign Minister Srdjan Kerim, Lord Robertson said Nato would be appealing to allied governments to send more troops to Kosovo to bolster the 40,000-strong Kfor force there.
‘‘We are determined to starve this limited group of extremists of the means of carrying on the fighting,’’ Lord Robertson said.
However, he insisted there was no question of changing Kfor’s mandate to allow allied troops to carry out military operations in Macedonia.
