He also visited troops in Kosovo as part of a six-day tour of Europe. Also on Wednesday unidentified gunmen fired on the office of Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski in central Skopje. The gunfire hit the bulletproof windows of the president office, but did not penetrate the glass. The attack took place as the president was meeting the leader of a political party. No casualties were reported.
Police say the gunmen fled after opening fire twice in the direction of the building.
Macedonian politicians had suggested a declaration of war in early May to end the insurgency which began in February. They were persuaded not to do it by the Western powers who said it would alienate ethnic Albanians and complicate the search for peace. Ethnic Albanians say they face discrimination by majority Slavs. The government calls them terrorists trying to wreck the nation. The West has been pushing the Slav majority to undercut support for the rebels by improving the rights of Albanians, who say they suffer state-backed discrimination in education, employment and language rights.