Macedonians Vote on Ethnic Albanian Rule
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Macedonia&#39;s national referendum on abolishing local autonomy for the country&#39;s restive ethnic Albanian minority appeared to have failed Sunday, early turnout figures suggested.
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Polls opened early Sunday for a vote on whether ethnic Hungarians should get Hungarian citizenship, an issue that is expected to reopen a decades old wound in the country.
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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.
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Macedonians voted Wednesday in parliamentary elections considered crucial for the tiny Balkan nation&#039;s aspirations of eventual membership in the European Union and NATO.
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Politics: 6 November 2004, Saturday. Macedonia sank into contemplation on Saturday, prior to the crucial referendum on whether to grant local autonomity to ethnic Albanians in the country.
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Hungary began voting Sunday on a controversial referendum that would extend citizenship to roughly five million ethnic Hungarians, many of them living in neighboring countries.
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Macedonia's peace process was at a crossroads Sunday as voters cast ballots in a referendum on whether to grant local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanians or risk undermining a peace pact with the restive ...
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A referendum on territorial law that intends to give Macedonia&#39;s Albanian minority greater autonomy failed to pass the turnout minimum, the Macedonian State Election Commission (SEC) announced Monday.
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Opponents of a deal giving Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority greater representation say they are confident of forcing a referendum on the issue.
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Macedonians showed the West they would  not slide back toward ethnic division, largely ignoring a  nationalist referendum that would have reversed a law giving  the Albanian minority more rights.
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Kosovo counted votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo counted  votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that  exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in  a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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Macedonia's opposition complained of "fraud" after a referendum to overturn EU-backed legislation giving more autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanian minority failed due to low turnout.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Most Serbs  boycotted a general election in Kosovo on Saturday which the  Albanian majority hopes will lead the U.N. protectorate out of  five years of political limbo to eventual independence.
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Macedonians will vote Sunday in a referendum that is likely to determine whether a three-year peace agreement to end ethnic violence in this former Yugoslav state will remain in place.
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Nationalist parties in Macedonia yesterday failed in their attempt to limit the rights of ethnic Albanians, after voters failed to turn out for a referendum on the issue.
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Macedonia's three-year peace process survived a key challenge after a referendum failed to overturn EU-backed laws to empower the ethnic Albanian minority, a ruling party official said.