NATO troops to Macedonia
NATO leaders decided at a meeting in Brussels on 15 August to deploy 400 troops to Macedonia as part of the peace deal agreed earlier this week. The British troops will travel to Skopje at the weekend where they will lay the groundwork for the full force of 3,500 NATO troops to be deployed. The NATO force's purpose is to complete the disarmament of ethnic Albanian guerillas in a 30 day mission codenamed Operation Essential Harvest.
NATO leaders decided at a meeting in Brussels on 15 August to deploy 400 troops to Macedonia as part of the peace deal agreed earlier this week. The British troops will travel to Skopje at the weekend where they will lay the groundwork for the full force of 3,500 NATO troops to be deployed. The NATO force’s purpose is to complete the disarmament of ethnic Albanian guerillas in a 30 day mission codenamed Operation Essential Harvest.
