Foreign ministers prepare for Balkans summit

They are working on a draft of a declaration to be adopted at the summit. Patrticipants are to include chiefs of states and governments from Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Turkey and Albania. The Croatian deputy premier would take part in the summit as an observer. Tanjug said that the draft regional economic cooperation "action plan" got a go-ahead from all participants and that it would adopted at the summit.

Political directors of foreign ministries were still ironing out details in a draft political document, but it is also expected to pass, the agency said. The Macedonian state news agency MIA said ethnic volatility in southern Serbia and a Greek proposal to solve the crisis would also be on the agenda.

(sda)