But within his party are many Slavs who regard the peace deal as a betrayal.
Macedonian Slavs and Albanians rubbed along fairly well for a decade, under a series of ethnically mixed governments.
If the Albanian population suddenly increases, the Slavs fear they could lose control.
He and other politicians representing Macedonia's majority Slavs and the ethnic Albanian minority began a second day of talks on Saturday.
Many Slavs fear that a lot of the 200, 000 refugees already in Macedonia are bound to stay, upsetting the already delicate demographic balance.
In mainly Romanian-speaking Moldova, Russia maintains a big military base in a separatist enclave called Transdniestria, which abuts Ukraine and is largely populated by Slavs.
Moreover, while Serbs have been making mayhem in the Balkans, other southern Slavs (Macedonians, Bulgars and Slovenes, among them) have been striving valiantly to nurture their new democracies.
Komarno has declined to find a prominent place for statues of St Cyril and St Methodius, revered by Slovaks and other Slavs for their missionary work in the ninth century.
The Macedonian government, headed by Slavs in coalition with Albanians, has told the West that it can hold the lid on ethnic tensions if, and only if, western aid keeps rolling in.
NATO, after all, has been assuring everyone that it is now a defence-cum-peacekeeping outfit that threatens absolutely nobody, least of all its old adversaries the Russians (among whose fellow-Slavs are the Serbs).
Unlike many other peoples in history, the Hungarians have survived as a separate nation with an Asiatic language like no other in Europe, boxed in among the Germans, the Russians and the southern Slavs.
Most Americans have only the vaguest notion of who the Afghans are, just as they had little understanding of the Vietnamese, Somalis, Slavs and Iraqis who populated other recent battlefields where U.S. forces have fought.
After a general election in strife-ridden Macedonia , a coalition of moderate Slavs and the more nationalistic of the two main ethnic Albanian parties prepared to replace a government led by the more nationalist Slav party.
The war over Kosovo in 1999, which left that province's ethnic-Albanian majority firmly in charge, has fuelled hopes among the Albanians, and fears among the Slavs, that a historic shift in favour of the Albanians is taking place across the whole region, as their demographic and economic weight rises.
EU's envoy to Macedonia, who, on the eve of his arrival on June 27th, proposed rather tactlessly that the Slav-led government should hold its nose and negotiate with the rebels: a realistic assessment, perhaps, but one that so enraged the Slavs that he was obliged to backtrack within 24 hours.
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