MACEDONIAN ETHNIC ALBANIAN REBELS "CONTROL" PART OF TETOVO-KOSOVO ROAD -RADIO
FoNet - February 19, 2003

Pristina, 19 February: Several persons in military uniforms, which according to the Macedonian police are members of the Albanian National Army (ANA), are controlling part of the road from Tetovo to Kosovo near the Jazince border checkpoint, Pristina-based Radio 21 reports.

The first official appearance of uniformed members of the ANA was "registered" yesterday morning, when, according to witnesses, two groups of members of this paramilitary formation "set up" a control checkpoint in the village of Drenovec and began to control vehicles and check identification documents of the passengers. The same source said that the paramilitary formation ANA had announced "new operations" and took "responsibility for the assassination as received in the south of Macedonia".

The members of this guerrilla movement claim that the aim of their struggle was the creation of a "Greater Albania".

The head of Tetovo police, Zemri Camil, rejected reports of certain media that members of the paramilitary formation yesterday morning blocked the Tetovo-Jazince road.

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1012 gmt 19 Feb 03

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