In the wake of troop withdrawals from Bosnia announced last week, the insurgents believe that George Bush's administration does not have the stomach to fight its former Albanian allies. Even if Nato were to make a concerted effort to stop arms flowing into Macedonia from Kosovo, Mr Jahjaga said, the guns would simply come across from Albania. There are so many ways for weapons to go across. There are very high mountains for them to go across. Weapons are not a problem.
Peace is the problem.
Mr Jahjaga said reports were coming in to New York that Bulgarian paramilitary groups were intervening on the Macedonian side, aided by weapons supplies from both Greece and Bulgaria. He denied that the aim of the Albanian rebels was to partition Macedonia and create a greater Albania.