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What they failed to do as government, they will try to achieve as opposition, Gosev says

Macedonian Information Agency (Apr 20, 2003, 7:00:08 PM (GMT+01:00)) (MIA) - Economy Minister Petar Gosev has been criticizing the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) and VMRO-DPMNE because they do not give up their ideas for ethnic cleansing.

Gosev's statement is the first reaction of a government representative after yesterday's DPA announcements for a possibility of new conflicts and creation of ethnically clean states, and the column of Ljubco Georgievski, the leader of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, published in daily "Dnevnik", who offers solution for an ethically clean Macedonia.

"We have all witnessed how they worked together with Georgievski on dividing the country. Their moves were rather convincing. They failed to complete the work, but it is obvious that they do not intend to give up those ideas ...They will have no other chance to realize their ideas for ethnic cleansing - their fascist philosophy for closing into ethnic ghettos. Their concepts will not turn into reality, Gosev said at the sidelines of a meeting of Macedonia's economists in Ohrid.

Leader of the opposition party DPA Arben Xhaferi announced that Macedonia would face new conflicts, as it has not been working on implementing of the Framework Agreement, only few days after publishing of the column of Georgiveski, who also considers that the agreement is dead.

"I will appeal to the international community to establish a protectorate in Macedonia, more efficient than the Kosovo one," the Macedonian Television quoted Xhaferi's statement for the media in Albanian language.

VMRO-DPMNE and DPA were coalition partners in the Macedonian government in 1998-2002.

Due to dissatisfaction with the policy for the agreement implementation, DPA parliamentarians would not attend parliamentary sessions, the party decided at yesterday's meeting of its Central Assembly.

In the column, published in "Dnevnik", Georgievski says that one of the solutions is convening of an international conference on the Balkans, at which the agreement (he has offered in his column) is to be confirmed.

"The Ohrid agreement is dead. The new government has not fulfil anything and Macedonia will be destabilized... It will also face a "social explosion", DPA deputy president Menduh Thaci said. Yesterday, Xhaferi and Thaci offered to resign from the DPA leadership.

"All multiethnic countries are ruined, and creating of ethnic countries is the only option that may function. We shall work very hard and seek support for this idea," Thaci said.

Georgievski on the other hand, offers solutions for ethnically clean Macedonia in his column, published in Friday's "Dnevnik", saying that Albanians do not wish to live together with Macedonians. He suggests displacing of Albanians from Skopje, Kumanovo, Kicevo and Struga by exchange of financial means and properties.

Georgi Efremov - member of the Macedonian Academy of Science and Art, promoted an idea for voluntarily exchange of territories in June 2001. Few days latter he, who was the Academy president than, resigned from his post.

Georgievski's final draft-solution, presented in his column, is building of concrete wall that will physically divide Albanians from Macedonians, if Albanian parties refuse a proposal, composed of eight theses.

"Macedonian national council (a body that is yet to be established) should define a dividing line and build a concrete wall, by coping the project from Israel," Georgievski says in his column.

On August 13, 2001, the Framework Agrement was signed in Skopje, putting an end to the seven-month conflict in Macedonia between the paramilitary NLA of Albanians and the Macedonian security forces. Ljubco Georgievski, Arben Xhaferi, Branko Crvenkovski and Imer Imeri, as well as Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, were the agreement signatories.

Ruling party SDSM criticized Georgievski's suggestion, asking VMRO-DPMNE members to distance themselves from the "anachronous and dangers" statements of their leader, while the Democratic Union for Integration said that Georgievski's visions are "last century's recipe."

Last August at a rally in Kumanovo, Thaci called on reconciliation of Albanians and Macedonians. After signing of the Ohrid agreement, Xhaferi said he would urge "Albanians to send only good messages to Macedonians.

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