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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Boris Trajkovski |
 | | The Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski, who has died in an air crash aged 47, will be most remembered for helping to coax his country back from the brink of civil war in the summer of 2001. |
 | | Trajkovski reacted by calling on the international community, including Nato, to increase its presence in the country, and by making concessions to the ethnic Albanians, including pledges of an amnesty for guerrillas fighting government forces if they disarmed voluntarily. |
 | | Trajkovski and his prime minister at the time, Ljubco Georgievski, both of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, were accused by the opposition Social Democratic Alliance of giving in to ethnic Albanian demands to enable them to stay in power. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /macedonia/story/0,7369,1157549,00.html (769 words) |
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