Macedonia backs multi-ethnic future
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Macedonians showed the West they would not slide back towards ethnic division, largely ignoring a nationalist referendum that would have reversed a law giving the Albanian minority more rights.
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The referendum result has expressed Macedonia commitment to move towards the Euro-Atlantic institutions, British Parliament Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Donald Anderson said Thursday in Skopje.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Eight Eastern European states launched a 10-year initiative yesterday to help millions of Roma Gypsies escape discrimination, segregation, and poverty that has pushed them to the margins of mainstream society.
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The French president sees support for plans that would group nations as diverse as Libya and Spain
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Macedonia&#39;s president has confirmed that the United States has informed him of plans to officially recognize his country as the &quot;Republic of Macedonia,&quot; a decision that drew protests from Greece.
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8 November 2004 -- Javier Solana, the European Union foreign-policy chief, today congratulated Macedonians for largely ignoring a referendum on reversing ethnic power-sharing legislation, declaring the outcome a boost for their drive to join the EU.
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The British government welcomed the failure of an opposition-backed referendum in Macedonia attempting to overturn EU-backed laws to empower the ethnic Albanian minority.
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Macedonia launched on Sunday morning a referendum to decide the fate of the country&#39;s old territorial law, which is decisive for whether the new terrorial law will be put into enforcement.
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Nepal's prime minister announced that ethnic Mahadhesis would have a greater role in shaping the nation's future in a move aimed at ending deadly protests in the south.
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The international forum "Multiculturalism in Macedonia: Model in Creation", organized by the Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia, was held Thursday in Skopje.
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Three years after a narrow escape from  full-scale civil war, Macedonia holds a referendum on Sunday  that its Western friends warn could mark a step backwards on  the road to stable, multi-ethnic democracy.
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Minister for Europe in the Britain's Foreign Office Denis MacShane, who is paying a visit to Skopje, sent word to Macedonian citizens to stay home on November 7 and to think over their decision.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia Voters are set go to the polls here Sunday in a referendum that will test the success of a three-year-long peace process to allay tensions between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians in this former Yugoslav republic.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (08/11/04) - A Sunday referendum in Macedonia against a government law granting the countryâs ethnic Albanian minority more political rights and powers has failed due to insufficient voter turnout.
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Macedonians have begun voting in a referendum that could decide if the country remains on a pro-Western path and gives its Albanian minority more rights or slips back on a nationalist course.
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Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia has given the go ahead for the construction of a $1.2bn oil pipeline that will pass through the Balkan peninsula.
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Opponents of a plan to give the ethnic Albanian minority in  Macedonia greater clout aim to force a vote  on the issue.