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North Macedonia - A Success Story

The lessons NATO learned during their operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo led to an under-appreciated success story, North Macedonia. In this episode we discuss how the Alliance successfully enforced a military ceasefire in North Macedonia and led Operation Essential Harvest, which disarmed rebels and ensured the basis for an effective diplomatic and political dialogue. All this was accomplished without deadly force or destruction.

GUESTS: Mark Laity, Carmen Romero 

SOURCES: 

Joint Statement on the ceasefires in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 5 July 2001
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_18868.htm?selectedLocale=en

EU and NATO agree concerted approach for the Western Balkans, 29 July 2003
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_20312.htm?selectedLocale=en

Mark Laity, Preventing war in Macedonia. Pre-emptive Diplomacy for the 21^stcentury.  Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Whitehall Paper 68, 2007.