ETHNIC ALBANIANS WALK ACROSS KOSOVO-MACEDONIAN BORDER IN GLOBOCICA, 2001-06-26 (photo)

An elderly ethnic Albanian couple, refugees from Macedonia, walk across the Kosovo-Macedonian border in the village of Globocica June 26, 2001. Western leaders have put pressure on the Macedonian government to find a political settlement to end months of simmering conflict with ethnic Albanians, based in the north of the Balkans state, who are demanding greater rights. But thousands of Macedonia's majority Slavs took to the streets on Monday to protest against NATO's operation to escort Albanian rebels out of the village of Aracinovo under a ceasefire deal. IM/