Posted on 09/29/2003 11:58:14 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
OHRID, Macedonia. — To judge by my own reaction, perceptions are lagging reality a bit when it comes to the former Yugoslavia. The beautiful lakeside town of Ohrid, Macedonia, was the scene this weekend of a conference bringing together leading officials from the Balkans. The years of upheaval in the formerYugoslavia,all agree, are past. The horrible, bloody and uncertain decade of the 1990s is over. The lives and the opportunityfor progress lost are to be mourned. But it is time to move forward, and that was the agenda at Ohrid.
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