The Yugoslav government has warned
neighbouring Macedonia that it would cause
long-term damage to their relations if NATO is
allowed to use Macedonian territory as a base for
possible military action against Yugoslavia.
Under an American-brokered deal two-thousand
international monitors will oversee a cease-fire in
the Serbian province of Kosovo, and NATO wants
to station a rapid reaction force in Macedonia as a
back up for their security.
Belgrade dismissed this as a pretext to create a
force for possible incursions into Yugoslavia.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
