Macedonia: filling the security vacuum

This briefing paper continues ICG's analysis of the Macedonian crisis, covering the period from the signing of the political agreement by the contending parties on 13 August 2001 through the start of the NATO mission to collect NLA arms, to the 6 September 2001 agreement by Macedonia's parliament to begin consideration of the promised constitutional and legislative reforms. It focuses on the tangled internal Macedonian political scene and on the international community's need to address the dangerous security vacuum that will arise without an adequate follow-on force to NATO's present mission.