Significats de albanian minority en anglès

Slovenia and Macedonia are ethnically homogeneous (Macedonia with a sizeable Albanian minority, though).

But there is also an internal political stand-off over the next government and over Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority.

The ruling could also spark instability among Albanian minorities in neighbouring Macedonia and in Serbia's southern Presevo Valley.

Macedonia: The European Union congratulated Macedonians yesterday for scuttling a referendum that sought to withhold powers from the country's Albanian minority.

Macedonia is to resume the debate on reforms to boost the status of the ethnic Albanian minority following the weekend impasse.

There can be little doubt that Macedonia - feeling besieged by its Albanian minority - regarded Milosevic as the perfect antidote.

Speculation on a motive for the killings has focused on tensions with the ethnic Albanian minority after bouts of intercommunal violence this year.

Yugoslav troops exchanged heavy fire with guerrillas in northwest Macedonia today as fighting spread to the heartland of the country's ethnic Albanian minority.

Nationalists in the Macedonian parliament have been holding up a vote on a new constitution, designed to boost rights for the Albanian minority.

It will also relieve tension in neighbouring Macedonia, where agitation for more rights by the Albanian minority has threatened to destabilise the government.

MACEDONIA: Macedonian nationalists cried foul yesterday after the referendum they hoped would withhold powers from the country's Albanian minority appeared doomed to failure.

A Macedonian political source said all the main party leaders from the Macedonian majority and the ethnic Albanian minority had already initialed the deal.

Macedonia: Macedonia's government has vowed to resign if tomorrow's referendum backs a nationalist attempt to withhold powers from the Balkan state's restive Albanian minority.

Skopje - Macedonia's political leaders yesterday agreed to key constitutional changes enshrining greater rights for the Albanian minority in a deal to stop renewed conflict.

Macedonia's troops shelled positions of ethnic Albanian rebels today while its leaders hurriedly examined political concessions to the Albanian minority aimed at averting civil war.

And to the country's Albanian minority at large it is offering political concessions, including a change in the constitution to make Albanian an official language.