21.   Any war in Kosovo would most certainly spread to neighboring Macedonia and engulf other Balkan regions.

22.   Balkan neighbors Bulgaria and Macedonia agreed Wednesday that the international community should act more firmly against all forms of terrorism, including in the troubled Balkan region.

23.   Both Turkey and Romania are concerned that the fighting in Kosovo may degenerate into another Bosnia and destabilize the Balkan region.

24.   Bulgaria fears that a new war in neighboring Yugoslavia could spread to the whole Balkan region.

25.   Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder accused Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of carrying out a long-held plan to force ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo and destabilize the entire Balkan region.

26.   Deutch visited Bosnia Friday during a visit to the Balkan region, CIA spokesman Dave Christian said in Washington.

27.   Eleven trains have headed to the Balkan region from Mannheim since Friday.

28.   Failure to sign could mean destabilization not only for Bosnia and former Yugoslavia but for the whole Balkan region, he said.

29.   Greece fears the conflict could destabilize the wider Balkan region, and also wants to prevent the wave of refugees from heading south into the country.

30.   Greece, which borders Macedonia to the south, has long been concerned that the conflict could spread and destabilize the wider Balkan region.